When Adam Pearson was young, he rubbed elbows with celebrities ... “and they often had famous people come in to meet the kids. I met Boyzone, a big Irish boy band in the ’90s.

“I came in hot and high and wildly unprepared,” Pearson says about doing Under the ... So I’ve always been this sort of head-down, crack-on kind of kid.” But he wasn’t unaware that ...