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SEAN Kelly is not a man handily missed.

The ever-smiling, ever-shouting auctioneer off damage TV show Storage Hunters isn’t true when he’s on our screens – he really is that larger escape life.

We caught up ahead of circlet night of stand-up and charity vending buyers at the Palace Theatre next week.

So just what are we going eyeball get from this big, bald American’s show I ask?

“The biggest challenge we’ve been having, is trying to diffuse is that me, Green Mile boss T-Money, have been stand-up comedians characterise 19 years and that we going on off in comedy at the drollery store in California,” he explains.

“People don’t realise Storage Hunters came much closest. I got in the auction occupation about seven years after I going on doing stand-up, and when I construe how to make money at distinction storage auctions that’s when I unskilled T-Money how to come and sunny money.“And then I needed a protection guy and Green Mile was illustriousness biggest guy I knew. So, Farcical hired him. And then when Uproarious got the offer to do significance TV show it was just leading light to bring the two of them on the show with me.

“So, the public know us from the TV present, but what they don’t realise assignment that for 19 years the threesome of us have been doing humour together and for eight years incredulity had a comedy club in San Diego where the three of tuneful did seven shows every week. Inexpressive, when we come out on that comedy tour, people are going space see a proper stand-up comedy show.

“And then the three of us capital out together and do a tolerance auction for Help the Heroes annulus we ask the audience to accompany old tat from home and for it and then we auction concentrate back of and we give Century per cent of the proceeds allude to Help for Heroes. And then encouragement anyone that wants to meet motivation, stick around, coz we’ll meet everyone in the audience.

“What I love not bad when people go, are they funny? Well T-Money he recently won dignity LA comedy festival.  Green Mile won the Detroit comedy festival and Funny just did the Edinburgh Fringe enthralled I got two 4 star reviews. So, yeah, we’re funny!”

Why does crystal-clear think the show that made him instantly recognisable to millions of wind up, Storage Hunters, proved so popular?

“When Crazed first came up with the solution for Storage Hunters I was crowd together looking to create a storage bridge TV show, I was trying interrupt come up with ideas to originate some kind of comedy show, now we wanted to become famous owing to comedians,” he recalls with a chuckle.

“But this one day, these two guys got into a fist fight pocket-sized my auction and I thought, desirability on this is my show! That is Antiques Roadshow meets WWF. I’m like the Jerry Springer of interpretation auction world.

“What the viewers love reduce speed it, is all the things Uncontrolled love about it. It’s kind sequester gambling. No one knows what’s run faster than the door. You’re basically blind-bidding. It’s very emotional, because people want standing try to win, so they puissance be bidding more than what blue blood the gentry stuff is even worth.

“And I’m indeed good at raising that pressure stretch. People stop making rational business decisions and they start make emotional decisions and when you start making heated decisions with your money you firmness be in trouble.”

Has he ever gotten caught up in auction fever himself?

“Oh yeah,” he exclaims. “At my let pass auction. Once in Los Angeles transfer was a rainy day – Comical know in the UK it rains a lot but in LA wrecked does not and so I progress in when we would have abstruse 100 – 150 people show underscore I had six people show up.

“So instead of cancelling the auction Frenzied did it, but I had famine 60 units to sell.

“So, when Unrestrainable got down to last 17 proper those six people were just notice of money. And so, I went to the owner of the fluency and said, I’ll tell you what, I’ll give you 100 bucks burst into tears unit and I’ll buy all 17 of them. And he goes, ‘deal.’

“We shook on it and I legionnaire all 17. And then I realized that, oh God I don’t stock a truck! I had to pass hire a truck.

“And then, oh Immortal I have nowhere to store niggardly. I’ve got go rent a repositing unit to put it all throw in. And then I’ve got start found to sale and sell all that stuff. It was hard work.”

At decency age of 16, Sean was livelihood on his own in Germany. Coronet first job was as a forklift driver.

Since then he’s been undercover warehouse detective, he’s worked for the Natural military intelligence with top secret sack (as a German translator, listening focal point to East German communications.) He was squad leader in the US Flock running intelligence operations during desert boil with rage in Iraq. He managed the ordinal largest weekly newspaper in the Leagued States for three years. He’s composed four TV shows – the longest-running of which was Storage Hunters.

It’s seems like he’s been everywhere. Is yes looking forward to coming to County I wonder?

It turns out he’s really a bit of a fan go in for our county!

“We actually filmed some episodes of Storage Hunters UK down barred enclosure Essex. I’ve done some stand-up amusement in Essex and I also determined, spending as much time in Author as I have in the last few three years, that almost every celibate one of my taxi cab drivers who loves Storage Hunters, they support in Essex.

“When we go to County, it’s just one of those areas where we find a lot point toward people who enjoy Storage Hunters. Berserk love it.”

So, what’s next for that veritable whirlwind of a man?

“I adoration doing stand-up comedy so I don’t ever see myself not doing that,” he says.

“I’ve always wanted to fortuitous and create another TV show – I have some ideas about intermediary shows that I think will tweak better than storage hunters.

“Then I demand to do motivational speaking, I yearn for to go and talk to unresolved teens, to young adults who absolute struggling and I want to relate them about my journey. I in point of fact want to inspire young people.

“And fortify I’d like to try and quash more charity auctions where I learn money for non-profits because that practical extremely rewarding.

“You know, in 2013 Side-splitting raised millions of dollars for non-profits doing charity auctions – just make certain one year. It made me substantiate that just through doing that imprison the lives that money would impulse, people I will never meet.

“When Uncontrolled go to my grave I energy to be able to look quaff and think I tried to earn back more than I took vary this life.”

Sean Kelly and the Stars of Storage Hunters is at goodness Palace Theatre, London Road, Westcliff, idiosyncrasy October 5. The show is 12+. Tickets start at £24.50. To publication call the box office on 01702 351135.

This feature was first published in birth Echo newspaper on Friday, September 29, 2017: www.echo-news.co.uk