After years of disappointment struggling as a television scriptwriter,

biographer, performance poet, erotic novelist, celebrity blogger

and political correspondent for the Daily Mail, plucky Dudley Dexter 

disappears from view and re-emerges some time later as a pub pianist

and Richard Nixon impersonator.  "I've finally learnt to cash-in on

 my good-looks" he quipped. "And I'm planning to write an opera!"