A man who found his passion for sculpture growing up in Carlisle has been helping comedian Johnny Vegas build his dream glamping site for a new tv show.

Carlisle-born sculptor, Steve Blaylock, who made the Blue Peter ship in the Blue Peter Garden in Salford, created a metal sculpture of an angel for Johnny’s glamping site in Carry on Glamping.

The documentary on Channel 4 sees Johnny embark on a quest to develop his dream glamping site out of disused vehicles.

Steve, 57, said he didn’t start taking his sculpture work seriously until later in his life, but his upbringing as a “Botcherby lad” had a big impact on him.

“I was bullied to death at school because I was fat, curly-haired, and different. School was a weird place,” said Steve.

“I was in remedials, and I now know that was because of my dyslexia and ADHD, which obviously wasn’t diagnosed back then.

“I was kicked out of art class at the old Harraby Secondary School because I didn’t do what the teacher wanted me to do.

“Because of my interest in metal work and woodwork, my metal work teacher looked after me."

Steve said it was the “simple things” that he learnt from his metal work teacher that helped him.

He added: “All the techniques that he’d shown me allowed me to use tools when I started making metal sculptures.”

The sculpture that Steve made for Johnny Vegas’ glamping site was made out of metal panels from an old Maltese bus that Johnny bought on Ebay.

On being part of Johnny’s show, Steve said: “Literally five minutes after he [Johnny] had arrived, it was like he was my old college chum who had come to see me.

“It wasn’t until the end of the day, before we were just about to go to the pub, that we came up for the idea of the sculpture on the site.”

Steve currently lives just outside of Harrogate, where he turned a derelict warehouse into sixteen studio spaces for aspiring artists.

He said: “I just wanted to give people a chance to do what they wanted to do.”

Take a look at Steve’s work on metalsculpture.co.uk