THE excited queue snaking round the first floor of Borders Bookshop in York said it all - the second sexiest man on television was in town and his fans were out in force.
He might have come second to George Clooney in a recent television poll, but Alan Titchmarsh - the gardening woman's crumpet - was the man everyone wanted to see as he signed copies of his memoirs, Trowel And Error: Notes From A Life On Earth, in the Davygate store yesterday.
"It's extremely hard writing about your own life," said Alan, as he prepared to meet his public. "Fiction is much easier. With real life, you can't make anything up for a start."
Updated: 11:01 Thursday, September 26, 2002
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