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I must visit them some day because they’re obviously lovely. I’ve reported from almost 150 countries, but never set foot in Australia or New Zealand.
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John, whose full name is John Cody Fidler-Simpson, shares a similar name with famous Australian pop-star Cody Simpson (pictured)Ħ. Long before reaching that, the passport officer got bored and stamped me in. Still, it worked he had so many Google entries that my first mention was on page 30. I didn’t realise Cody Simpson was a hugely famous Australian pop-star, a quarter of my age. Passport control at Rangoon airport would Google you to make sure you weren’t a journalist sneaking into their dictatorship illegally. I once exercised my right to get a new passport which left out two of my forenames, leaving me ‘Cody Simpson’, in order to get into Burma in 2010 to cover the release of democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi.
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My full name is John Cody Fidler-Simpson. Now I relish wiping out 50ft mutant ants and spiders with my trusty flame-thrower. I was reluctant when my nine-year-old son first begged me to play Earth Defence Force on his Xbox. Embarrassing, if you’re posing as a hard-nosed newsman.Ĥ. Live broadcasting can be a real problem if I’ve got to report anything sad, especially about kids, as my eyes fill with tears. Something traumatic must have happened between me and a tomato at nursery school, I think. I’ve had monkey in the Amazon, camel in Libya, and locusts in China, but I can’t bear tomatoes. You also get the privilege of wearing a gold earring, but I don’t do that.Ģ. In particular, I eat with my elbows on the table, because of an old maritime tradition granting that privilege if you sail round Cape Horn - which I did in a small boat some years ago, for a TV series.