Nobody's fool NICHOLAS LYNDHURST became the nation's favourite plonker as Rodney in Only Fools And Horses. But, he tells MARY RIDDELL in a rare interview, being abandoned by his father was no laughing matter From: Daily Mail | Date: February 19, 2005| Author: | Copyright 2005 Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

At first I do not recognise Nicholas Lyndhurst. Worse, I barely register the hunched, gangly figure wearing a grey hooded top and a baseball cap jammed low over his eyebrows. Fortunately, he construes being ignored not as a slight but as a signal that his Asbo chic is working.

Anonymity is what Nicholas craves. A quarter of a century after he starred in the first series of Only Fools And Horses, the ghost of Rodney Trotter still pursues him.

Well meaning calls of 'Oi, Rodney!', or, more usually, 'Oi, Plonker!' remain a familiar greeting from fans. The day before our meeting, he was less ...