Burners Watch star David Peachey reflects on his childhood fame: “Everyone always notices!”

David Peachey “never tells anyone” he was a child star.

The 34-year-old former actor played the title role in the CITV series Bernard Watch, about the adventures of a schoolboy with a magical watch that has the ability to stop time, but despite now being unrecognized He admitted that people always knew about his childhood fame.

He told Metro.co.uk: “People always find out that I’m Bernard from Bernard Watch because it comes up when someone searches for my name, either because they know someone or for some other reason. I never say or say, “By the way, did you know I’m Bernard?” But people tend to find out.

“The days when I was actually recognized are long gone. I may have still been in college for a little bit, but it wasn’t until three or four years after I was on TV. It stopped for a while.”

David, who now works as a GP, filmed five episodes of the ‘Bernard Watch’ series before the show was revived as ‘Bernard’ in the early 2000s with another child actor and the late Emmerdale star Kay Purcell. did.

However, David said that while he used to feel “really shy and embarrassed” when being recognized in public when he was famous, he now accepts the experience for what it is and says that being famous is “a lot more difficult” these days. He claimed to think so. Since the beginning of social media.

He said: “I can’t speak too well about this experience, but before I didn’t want to go out and be recognized and that made me very shy and embarrassed, but I think things are much more difficult now.” People have to deal with things like social media and instant reactions. ”