Ingrid, his assistant by day, ignored him and was soon hanging on his arm, accompanied by a few more fawning wannabe vampires.
Feeling scared about what could go wrong is preventing an increasing number of wannabe entrepreneurs from setting up in business, new research claims.
It is a career with qualities that any wannabe filmmaker would surely hope to emulate.
The 11 O'Clock Show Channel 4 Sacha Baron Cohen's creation Ali G is a typical wannabe gangsta, familiar to urban Britain.
The crowd may have had to endure downpours, wannabe gangsters, pantomime rockers and The Rasmus, but Reading still rocked.