Born in Mirfield in West Yorkshire to entertainers Ann Montini and Alan Scott, Sean first attracted attention as a singer, and released a cover version of Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore", before taking up posts as a presenter at multiple radio stations.
: The Lost Interviews, which attracted critical commentary on separate editions of Dave Gorman's show Modern Life is Goodish.
His mother, Ann Montini,[2] is a variety artiste who performed as a Marie Lloyd tribute act and set up Variety Express in 1959 as a derivative of Tonight at the London Palladium;[3] his father, Alan Scott, was a comedian, and his brother, Mark Grant,[4] presented dance charts for European networks.
[5] In 1997, Sean was working as a publicist under Barry I. Tomes,[6] who set up Gotham Records in 1989,[7] and in 2000, he and Montini released a cover version of Cliff Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore".
[14] In August 2016, a pull-quote attributed to "Neil Sean, NBC News" was used to advertise a stage production of The Go-Between; after Mark Shenton attempted to verify where NBC had published Sean's opinion, he proceeded to remind him that he had been fired from the Sunday Express after they discovered nude images of him online.
[23] By 27 November 2017,[24] the DVD was selling for £195.60 on Amazon;[25]: 27:09 explaining himself on an episode of Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast recorded that day,[24] Gorman noted that his usual Modern Life is Goodish dissections were tongue-in-cheek, with Sean being the only person he had given a "proper kicking" to, that Hadoke had been brought in as he was struggling to contain his hatred for Sean during run-throughs due to the "mean-spirited"-ness of his work, and opined that the DVD's high selling price was caused by algorithmic tacit collusion and an inability for the product to shift at £3.99.
[1] To promote the book, he made an appearance on Australian television, on which he alleged that William, Prince of Wales had suggested combining free hotel aftershave samples, that Jason Donovan had told him that he commuted by a self-renovated second-hand bicycle after appearing in Neighbours, and that Boris Johnson had told him that he visited his local library for the latest books, audiobooks, and newspapers.
Dave Gorman used just over six minutes of a September 2014 episode of Modern Life is Goodish to opine that the last three of these did not constitute a celebrity lifestyle and neither did his book's tip to recycle gym wet bags to transport packed lunches, and suggested that one tip, that a "calling card for things like free menu-testing at all the top restaurants" was rushing to leave a posh hotel at the same time as an A-list celebrity and planting a kiss on their cheek in view of paparazzi, would constitute sexual assault.
[10]: 8:45 Both Gorman[10]: 8:45 and Emma Clayton of the Telegraph & Argus questioned Sean's suggestion that it was feasible to obtain free shoes by offering to be a shoe-tester, with the latter also questioning whether a customer would in fact find "a good Cartier belt, vintage cufflinks, a Hermes scarf" just by rummaging in charity shops, whether a record company's public relations department would supply free albums or concert invites without harassing for press cuttings, and whether banks would want to befriend customers just because they adopted a nonchalant air and asked about corporate hospitality offers.