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He is a TV star like no other.

 He doesn't surround himself with PR minders and ghastly yes-men. There are no outrageous salary demands. He doesn't even insist on a make-up artist before his prime time performances.

Paul Yarrow — star of BBC1, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and even the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network — has appeared on television more than 100 times this year. The only problem is that the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and Al Jazeera don't want him to be there.

What they want is for their TV reporters to be left in peace. What they don't want is Yarrow — a balding, fat man who often wears a wrinkled white sweater — popping up behind their star correspondents, distracting viewers from the Very Important News that they are trying to deliver.

For his part, 42-year-old Yarrow, from Southwark in South London, has a very simple mission: to get himself on television as often as possible, without being invited. No wonder the 'news raider' has become an overnight internet sensation.

With modesty almost unknown among TV performers, this fighter pilot's son says: 'You just have to watch the news and use your common sense to know where the cameras will be.'

Yarrow's TV 'career' began with a series of appearances on various channels one day last October, when British National Party leader Nick Griffin was invited to appear on the BBC's Question Time.

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the BBC TV Centre in West London - along with one interloper in a grubby sweater, determined to get on TV.

Yarrow duly appeared all afternoon and evening in the background of several live reports from the demonstration on Sky News. He also secured himself a slot on Channel 4 News that night.

His appetite whetted, a few weeks later he made his way on to the BBC's local London news. He appeared in the background as the deputy leader of Southwark council, Kim Humphreys, was being interviewed outside a refuge centre in Peckham, South London.

Same sweater. Same messy hair. Only this