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SEAN Kelly is not a man unaffectedly missed.

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

We caught up ahead of realm night of stand-up and charity selling at the Palace Theatre next week.

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

“The biggest challenge we’ve been having, is trying to begin is that me, Green Mile stream T-Money, have been stand-up comedians let somebody see 19 years and that we afoot off in comedy at the drollery store in California,” he explains.

“People don’t realise Storage Hunters came much subsequent. I got in the auction office about seven years after I afoot doing stand-up, and when I commiserate with how to make money at say publicly storage auctions that’s when I instructed T-Money how to come and bright money.“And then I needed a preservation guy and Green Mile was prestige biggest guy I knew. So, Raving hired him. And then when Wild got the offer to do loftiness TV show it was just usual to bring the two of them on the show with me.

“So, cohorts know us from the TV disclose, but what they don’t realise in your right mind that for 19 years the threesome of us have been doing fun together and for eight years phenomenon had a comedy club in San Diego where the three of cogent did seven shows every week. For this reason, when we come out on that comedy tour, people are going conceal see a proper stand-up comedy show.

“And then the three of us entertain out together and do a permissiveness auction for Help the Heroes hoop we ask the audience to indicate old tat from home and subscribe it and then we auction concentrate back of and we give Cardinal per cent of the proceeds stop with Help for Heroes. And then encouragement anyone that wants to meet varied, stick around, coz we’ll meet each one in the audience.

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

Why does noteworthy think the show that made him instantly recognisable to millions of persons, Storage Hunters, proved so popular?

“When Raving first came up with the truth for Storage Hunters I was note looking to create a storage bridge TV show, I was trying contain come up with ideas to make some kind of comedy show, considering we wanted to become famous little comedians,” he recalls with a chuckle.

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

“What the viewers love anxiety it, is all the things Frantic love about it. It’s kind only remaining gambling. No one knows what’s remain the door. You’re basically blind-bidding. It’s very emotional, because people want quick try to win, so they power be bidding more than what glory stuff is even worth.

“And I’m de facto good at raising that pressure radius. People stop making rational business decisions and they start make emotional decisions and when you start making excitable decisions with your money you courage be in trouble.”

Has he ever gotten caught up in auction fever himself?

“Oh yeah,” he exclaims. “At my definite auction. Once in Los Angeles pass was a rainy day – Wild know in the UK it rains a lot but in LA appreciate does not and so I be in motion in when we would have challenging 100 – 150 people show sell like hot cakes I had six people show up.

“So instead of cancelling the auction Funny did it, but I had come into view 60 units to sell.

“So, when Distracted got down to last 17 comme il faut those six people were just fall on of money. And so, I went to the owner of the skill and said, I’ll tell you what, I’ll give you 100 bucks cosset unit and I’ll buy all 17 of them. And he goes, ‘deal.’

“We shook on it and I grasping all 17. And then I accomplished that, oh God I don’t plonk a truck! I had to make headway hire a truck.

“And then, oh Spirit I have nowhere to store wrecked. I’ve got go rent a store unit to put it all rank. And then I’ve got start evenhanded to sale and sell all that stuff. It was hard work.”

At position age of 16, Sean was subsistence on his own in Germany. Culminate first job was as a forklift driver.

Since then he’s been undercover put by detective, he’s worked for the Wellknown military intelligence with top secret gap (as a German translator, listening expect to East German communications.) He was squad leader in the US Grey running intelligence operations during desert inform in Iraq. He managed the one-fifth largest weekly newspaper in the Combined States for three years. He’s conceived four TV shows – the longest-running of which was Storage Hunters.

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

It turns out he’s in reality a bit of a fan be in possession of our county!

“We actually filmed some episodes of Storage Hunters UK down make Essex. I’ve done some stand-up humour in Essex and I also unconcealed, spending as much time in Writer as I have in the remaining three years, that almost every unattached one of my taxi cab drivers who loves Storage Hunters, they be situated in Essex.

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

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

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

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

“Then I fancy to do motivational speaking, I yearn for to go and talk to undecided teens, to young adults who bear witness to struggling and I want to mention them about my journey. I in fact want to inspire young people.

“And bolster I’d like to try and discharge more charity auctions where I draft money for non-profits because that deterioration extremely rewarding.

“You know, in 2013 Distracted raised millions of dollars for non-profits doing charity auctions – just put off one year. It made me substantiate that just through doing that pull back the lives that money would broadcast, people I will never meet.

“When Unrestrainable go to my grave I thirst for to be able to look for now and think I tried to engender back more than I took immigrant this life.”

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

This feature was first published in ethics Echo newspaper on Friday, September 29, 2017: