Maybe it’s this kind of honesty that gets Richard Bacon his 1,316,602 followers (at time of posting).

My mum’s dog is on This Morning right now (the bigger white one). I’m worried it’s got better TV work than I have. Posted at 11:22 10/02/2011

Join him at twitter.com/richardpbacon if you wish.

***UPDATE***

Twitter response from @richardwbiggs explains it all: twitter.com/richardwbiggs/status/35687861860835328