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The Pain of Fame: Episode 5: Gavin Bain

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Episode 5: Gavin Bain

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Scottish hip-hop artist Gavin Bain talks to Clare English about the pain of fame.

Scottish hip-hop artist Gavin Bain talks to Clare English about the pain of fame he experienced after pulling off one of the biggest hoaxes in the music industry.

Scottish Hip-Hop artist Gavin Bain speaks to Clare English about the pain of fame after pulling off one of the biggest hoaxes in the music industry. Gavin explains that when he and his mate Billy Boyd failed to get noticed on the U.K hip-hop scene, they took the decision to drop their Scottish identities, reinventing themselves as Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains, earning themselves a £250,000 Sony record deal.

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Clare English finds out whether celebrity and fame are worth the pain that comes with them

Gail Porter, Tommy Sheridan, Chick Young and others talk to Clare English about the cost of being a celebrity and whether fame is worth the pain of living in the spotlight.

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