Dishy telly doc Hamish Clark has revealed he suffered a severe identity crisis when TV bosses changed the name of his heart-throb character.

For two years Scotsman Hamish has been a ratings winner as scruffy Dr Roger Graham in the hit ITV series My Wonderful Life.

The actor from Broughty Ferry, Dundee, has been inundated with sexy fan mail from girls desperate to check out his bedside manner.

But when he turned up to start filming the third series, which begins on Sunday night - Hamish discovered that Dr Graham was now Dr McIntyre.

When the baffled star pointed out the sudden name change of the leading character to the show’s producers, they just shrugged their shoulders.

Hamish said: “It appears that after two series and 12 episodes I’ve now become Roger McIntyre for some reason. Maybe they secretly got me married off to some bloke without telling me and I had to take his name now that would be an interesting twist.

“It apparently came about because in the new series my mum and dad turn up and they’re Mr and Mrs McIntyre, which confused me. So of course my name became McIntyre overnight.

“I pointed it out to the producer who joked ‘well it’s Scottish isn’t it? Graham, McIntyre it’s all the same.” “I told all the cast and crew and they just thought it was funny, so that shows how important I am.” The unexpectant surname switch aside, the schizophrenic Dr McIntyre proved to be a huge success for Hamish, who just four years ago was working as a lollipop man in Edinburgh.

Stardom
Despite moving to London to kick start his acting career, Hamish was struggling to make the grade and was working in Oddbins until one day old pal and Braveheart star Angus MacFayden walked into the store.

The pair had been at university in Edinburgh together and had even formed their own theatre group with fellow actor Greg Wise called The Thunder Bunnies,before going their separate ways.

But Angus, hot from playing Robert The Bruce alongside Mel Gibson, turned Hamish’s fortunes around and sent him on his way to stardom.

He said: “Angus started all of this for me. He set me up for my first TV audition for My Wonderful Life and the rest is history.
“Now people know who I am when I go for castings, it’s great. It turned out that My Wonderful Life was the most successful ITV comedy last year.”
In the last series Hamish, 33, finally got it on with sexy doc Donna - played by Emma
Wray. But there will be fireworks between the two lovebirds in the new episodes.

He said: “In the first series I was really shy but I’ve come out my shell.

“I started going out with Donna, but I was really just her whipping boy and wouldn’t stand up for myself.

“You may find I eventually have enough of being pushed around so it’s a case of new name, new man.” Since shooting to stardom, Hamish has also had bit parts in two movies.

He starred alongside Rik Mayall in Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis. And he lined-up with Shakespeare In Love heart-throb Joseph Fiennes for the little known flick Martha Meets Frank, Daniel and Lawrence.

Hamish is also the star of the current Vodaphone adverts, where he gets to say the irritating phrase “A phone - in a box?”

He explained: “I’m the guy in the telephone boxes in the desert. Everyone says it’s a really annoying advert, but I don’t think so.

“It was sunny when I filmed it but bloody windy. I got sick on the first day of filming from wind burn, but it was good fun to do.”

* The new series of My Wonderful Life starts this Sunday on ITV