DJ Fat Tony: Surviving My Darkest Years & What Recovery Really Looks Like
Begin Again with Davina McCall
FlightStory
4.6 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was 14. I wanted to be friends with Boy George. I remember saying... |
| 0:03.1 | Who cares wildly for you? Is it your mum? Or is it someone who stepped in and became mum to you? |
| 0:11.6 | I lost my mum 18 years ago and our relationship was complicated to say the least. |
| 0:16.7 | But I have been so blessed to have my step-mom, Gabby. My goodness, she's been there for me through everything. |
| 0:23.5 | Mother's Day's coming up and I think it's such a lovely day. |
| 0:27.5 | But it's also a really good reminder to tell the women who've held you up in your life how much you love them. |
| 0:34.3 | And sending flowers with a little card, don't forget the card everyone, |
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| 1:08.4 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. It's an unusual name. Introducing young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. What's a game I'm we playing today? Discover the origins. It's leaving. Those days aren't really behind me. Of crime's most iconic mind. There has been a break-in. Astoned. You should be a detective. Starring hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. Young Sherlock, new original series, watch now only on Prime Video. Who does your hair? They're not dreadlocks, they're locked. To someone who's just about to become one of the biggest stars on the planet, because I'd rather you hate me than like me. All I knew was negative attention because I never ever wanted anyone to know the real me. You very nearly lost it all. I did lose it all that. At what point did you find the club scene? I was dating the manager and I would say people leave and they don't like the music. He said, well, if you think you can do, Bell, why didn't you do it? I was like, you know what, I will? And then the next minute, I'm playing at Palada in New York. I was so busy being caught up in the toniaisms of life. I didn't know how to love myself. Over the years of lots of alcohol and certain drugs, I was in prison for about three months. |
| 2:20.0 | My mum had cancer at that point in time on top of that stuff. |
| 2:23.4 | My house was being bugged. |
| 2:24.6 | My ex-partner had basically poor recording devices in my every room in my house. |
| 2:30.4 | When did it tip over the edge? |
| 2:32.4 | My mum come over and found me unconscious and rushed me to hospital. And then that was the day that I was diagnosed. With HIV? Yeah, I was dying. The journey's been made a lot easier because of people like yourself in my life. Stavi, came into my life. It makes me love myself. I'm going to read you something. It's it's not your will. No, no, it's not that. |
| 2:51.9 | My head's just stood on then. That shut you up, didn't it? Yeah, didn't you? Just. |
| 2:59.0 | Tony? Yes. Yay! |
| 3:02.9 | Back together again. It's you and me. You know what? I used to watch this. I watched this podcast and the trailers for it every time. And I think, she's a bitch. She's not had me on at all. You know what I mean? All the years I've known her and she's got these like people she's met once at dinner and that's it. Do you know what I mean? |
| 3:24.7 | You're here. |
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