This is Gene Hunt's profile retrieved from the London Metropolitan Police's staff files. Want to find out what the Guv is all about? Read on if you dare!
This is my idea for the OMG challenges, based on Ashes to Ashes episode 3.02 when he and DI Alex Drake compare their staff profiles after hours, but I've chosen to update it's autobiographical scene!
Full Name: Eugene Stephen Michael Hunt
Nicknames: The Gene Genie, Guv and the Manc Lion
Birthday: 28th February 1963
Are you single, dating or married: I'm currently dating DI Alexandra Drake; a.k.a Bolly Knickers who has a plum in her mouth, a posh tart and we work well together as a team fighting the scum among boring old paperwork!
My bad habits are swearing too much and collecting bills!
Hobbies: Golf, darts and playing the Sony PlayStation with the guys from work on Grand Theft Auto, FIFA or Resident Evil.
Funniest thing to ever happen in CID: The Superintendent shouting at everybody!
Most memorable holiday ever: in the lovely hot weather in Minnorca, getting a tan like a burnt sausage and having the best Full English I ever had!
Colour: Blue
Music: Pink Floyd, David Bowie, S-Club, Wham, Duran Duran and Steps to name a few of my musical tastes; don't let the others know I love pop music, shhhh!
Book: Dubliners or Biographies
Flower: Rhododendron
Food: Lamb roast or steak and chips
Fruit: Bananas
Pizza Topping: Pepperoni or Meat Feast
Vegetable: Runner Beans
Ice cream Flavour: Chocolate
Films: Any James Bond, westerns, Star Wars and the Sweeney movies!
Actor: Richard Burton
Actress: Judi Dench
Saying: Trust the Gene Genie!
Do you cook? Yes, a roast lamb and curries.
Dance? Absolutely if the song's right!
Sing? Only in the bath or at a karaoke, otherwise I make an idiot of myself!
Drink Tea? All the time!
Do you wear glasses? Only for reading and working at my PC Terminal.
Now what cars have you owned personally through the years?
1980-1985: 1971-1977 Ford Cortina Mk3 GXL or 2000 Executive with the twin or square headlights; this was the very car that kick started my love of certain cars and it all snowballed from there, corrupting me!
1986-1990: 1983 Audi Quattro UR in Mars red, it was the first four wheel drive car I ever had.
1987-1988: 1980 Ford Capri Mk3 GL in Brooklands blue, this was a bit lairy on speed bumps, I only had it briefly as someone crashed into the back of the Capri and owning one didn't feel the same after that incident!
1991-1994: Mercedes 190E in black, great for tyre kicking criminals trainers with.
2001-2003: 1993 Mitsubishi Pajero Exceed; it had leather seats, I turned Japanese with this as it could be useful for ramming bank robbers vehicles off the road.
1993-2008: 1993 Ford Sierra Mk2 RS Sapphire Cosworth saloon, loved this for outrunning the little boy racer bandits in puny little Metros, Corsas, Novas and Saxos during the Max Power era days! I still miss the cool snowflake styled rims and the sound of the Cozza!
1994-present day: Ford Granada Mk3 GLX in graphite grey with a graphic equaliser, power steering and looked like a space age design that hasn't aged since I first got it brand new!
2005-2014: Audi A3 quattro in maroon, it felt ahead of it's time and never gave me any trouble when I briefly returned to Greater Manchester Police for a few years on their cold case squad.
2008: Volvo XC70, uber cool with my personal plate at work and be sensibly mature too.
2011+: Ford Mondeo Titanium X Sport, now this is one of my favourites out of today's 21st Century cars and just modest enough without looking like a prat!
Police allocated vehicles, which ones were your worse Gene Hunt?
Oh, do I have to answer this?!
Loads, but there were company cars I was glad to consign to the history bin.
Audi Q8: This was the car that made me feel too middle class, Elaine Dowling's younger but snobby husband owned a string of these since 2011 and I couldn't move for garters in London whenever I was allocated the Q8 as it reminded me of that puzzle game Tetris since manuvering in traffic was awkward in this. Call this an Audi? Yeah right!
Austin Metro: The baked bean tin on wheels from when I first began my career in the Police Force with Greater Manchester, awful thing it was.
Rover 3500 SD1/870: The police ones were horrid poverty spec and it ruined a great futuristic Ferrari like design!
Peugoet 206 GTI: This was a sheep pretending to wear wolf's clothing from the country of frogs!
BMW 3 Series: Elaine Dowling had one of these until 2011; after seeing 'er in it, felt like my mother driving a sports saloon whenever I got given a Beemer at work I've never seen them in the same way since.
I hope you've enjoyed this little glimpse into DCI Gene Hunt's profile, I could be adding his Police service history and some of his big cases in the next few chapters. So watch this space!