Gardener's question time  Lynn Barber on why Alan Titchmarsh
grows on you  Alan Titchmarsh is a sex god. Deep breath. Try
again. Alan Titchmarsh is a sex god. Titchmarsh. Alan. Sex. God.
Is... Nope. It's no good - I still can't make that leap of
faith. But for all I know there might be women who believe Robin
Cook is a sex god. Anyway, we have proof that Alan Titchmarsh is
an SG because he says so himself and he is a far too nice a man
to lie.  Just the other day, on Ground Force, he announced,
'I'll have you know I'm the sexiest man on telly after George
Clooney.' He didn't actually explain the basis for this
statement because he was too busy toshing up a topiary peacock
at the time, but I asked him afterwards, and he said it was from
some television survey quoted in The Daily Telegraph. Elle
magazine put him in a list of top 20 gorgeous hunks and Woman's
Own included him in a feature on 'hidden heart-throbs'. Two
years ago he was mobbed by women at a Gardeners' World live show
in Birmingham - and not all ol