Comedian Jim Moir, better known as Vic Reeves, has revealed his favourite pastime during train journeys: peering into people's homes to see what they are having for dinner. Speaking to fellow TV star Vernon Kay while travelling on a TransPennine Express service to Edinburgh, Moir confessed his nosy habit.
“Do you know what I like about train journeys?” Moir asked. “You can see into people’s houses and I’m such a nosy parker, I love it.” He described how watching families prepare meals at dusk, a time he called “crepuscular,” raises the human spirit. “You think ‘isn’t that nice, what are you having for your tea?’ and I’ll have a good glance through the window to see if I can spot it,” he added.
Moir also discussed how his upbringing in Darlington, where he lived from age five to 19, continues to influence his creativity. “I think wherever you grew up in your teen years, you’re informed by it,” he said. He reminisced about “messing about” in fields during his formative years and shared memories of early TV projects like Vic Reeves Big Night Out and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.
