HAMISH DIALS UP TV BREAK
SUNDAY MAIL (GLASGOW, SCOTLAND)
20 FEBRUARY 2000

It used to be a case of “don’t call us, we’ll call you” for struggling Scots actor Hamish Clark.

Now the hunky 28-year-old star of a lavish mobile phone advertising campaign has landed a dream role in a quirky pounds 6 million BBC series.

The smooth-talking Scot has had schoolgirls cooing in the streets since he appeared in a series of TV commercials for Vodafone.

The campaign had him thrown into a twister, perched atop a bizarre African rock formation and drawing strange messages in the sand on a paradise island in Spain.

The Dundonian, who once worked as a lollipop man for a local school , admits he’s made a mint. Now he could have a foot-hold in popular drama after the Highland estate drama, Monarch of the Glen starts its eight-part run next Sunday.

Hamish plays kilted handyman Dunc, who works for an eccentric laird, his dotty wife and a reluctant heir.

A lot of his tinkering is actually with sexy Lexie the pantry maid, played by newcomer Dawn Steele, and somewhere lurks a dastardly plan to snatch the family pile.

Hamish said: “Everyone recognises me from the adverts. These are ads that people remember.

“The Scots accent works because the English can’t class it. They like the regional thing.”