Celebrity builder or over the hill(durrrrrr)?

Icon. Pioneer. 'The Black&Decker Wrecker' himself, Tommy Walsh.

Famously reclusive from the British media, Walsh's surprisingly frank press conference at Bulbs' Garden Centre in Yeovil sent shockwaves through the building and horticultural communities of the nation. Promoting his new candid autobiography 'The Highs and Lows of Tommy Walsh - Screwing up to Nailing It!' he revealed his darkest secrets.

While on the set of 'Ground Force' (BBC1) Walsh and co-host Alan Titchmarsh were almost always intoxicated on a cocktail of class A drugs, 'in hindsight trying to erect a fence while on the back end of a 7 day bender was regrettable' said a weeping Walsh. Fellow presenter, Charlie 'nipples' Dimmock became a source of tension on the programme after dating both of her colleagues.

The undercurrent of rage came to ahead at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2001, when Tommy found out Titchmarsh was courting Dimmock, he vowed to be-smudge the Titchmarsh name. He began his now infamous vendetta against his old gardening companion.

'Alan and I were used to building things together, now i was going to shatter his foundations,' reveals Tommy in his book.

Tommy would regularly steal Titchmarsh's pac-a-mac on rainy days, while habitually licking his own elbows to baffle production staff. The pranks became part of everyday life on Ground Force until that is, Alan snapped in a fountain of fury. Alan stormed onto Roger Beadle's newly constructed veranda. Looking back, Roger still cannot come to terms with the events that unfolded that fateful summer evening,

'it was just horrible, so, so, so, horrible, just hideous. thank CHRIST Alan was browsing the screw fix catalogue instead of digging (with a sharp metal spade) or we'd have lost a national treasure and great builder that day.'

Tommy and Alan's relationship is still on the rocks, but has shown real signs of improvement on the set of Shrubs starring Zac Braff.

The Blogonauts can only hope that Alan and Tommy reconcile for the good of British gardens and television.

Tommy you're bang on the blog!