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Naughty Nigel! What turned schoolboy into anarchic star who soaked Deputy PM?
DANBERT Nobacon may now be famous as the anarchist singer who caused a splash at the Brit Awards 1998 but he started life as plain old Nigel Hunter.
The 35-year-old member of Burnley band Chumbawamba finally completed his transformation to rock rebel on Monday night by drenching Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the ceremony.
He later got his comeuppance with a soaking from a national newspaper journalist as the chart-topping group set off for a major Japanese tour last night.
Here are some facts about New Labour's new enemy.
=Young Nigel Hunter was a keen scout, sportsman and fell-runner.
=He was a gifted schoolboy and won a place at the former Burnley Grammar School, where he was put in the Alpha stream for fast-track pupils and went on to gain eight O-levels and four A-levels in English literature, history, geography and general studies.
=He is said to have changed his name to Danbert Nobacon because he is a vegan.
=He had a paper round and worked in a supermarket before going to Leeds Polytechnic to study for a degree in higher education. He quit after two years because he "could learn more on his own".
=He loves to dress in women's clothes and set off for Japan wearing a tight leather mini-skirt - but he is happily married to his American-born wife Laura.
=He has two brothers, Jason and Brent.
=His first band was Chimp Eats Banana and he became a founding member of Chumbawamba in 1982.
But to his parents Roy and Shirley who still live in the family home in Rossendale Road, Habergham Eaves, Burnley, he is "still our Nigel."