IN HIS OWN WORDS: Rob Lowe

The lead in 9-1-1: Lone Star (9pm, Sky Witness), Rob Lowe has been acting for more than

40 years. Here are a few things he has had to say about his life and his long career… On his teenage years: ‘I was a nerd in school. Or they went into politics because of The West I liked the theatre. I liked to study. I wasn’t very Wing and now, they’re the head speechwriter good at sports. It took being famous to make for President Obama. Which is a true story.’ me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.’

On his younger son, John Owen, writing for On his worst-ever acting jobs: ‘I’ve had 9-1-1: Lone Star: ‘I think he’s very disciplined a few of these. I did a job for a movie on a about not pitching too many stories that location where they were trying to save make his dad look like a moron, because you money. When I got to the location, they know, that’s really what he wants to do.’ didn’t have any stunt men, which was a

On his worst vice at the moment: problem because it was an action movie.’

‘Waking up in the middle of the

On how people react when they night to eat a pint of ice cream.

meet him: ‘People talk about I don’t know where that’s coming having grown up with me. That The from... but it’s my new cross to

Outsiders is the first movie they saw, bear. I say to myself, “You know or their first date with their wife was what would solve this problem? About Last Night or St Elmo’s Fire. A pint of chocolate ice cream.”’