NAME: Stephen - nickname F (long and very tedious story). In the pic, I am on the right next to my mate Stuart.

HOME: Tooting, south London. I rent some rooms from an old mate who has a very large house.

BORN: October 30, 1963 (yikes).

STARSIGN: Scorpio - if you believe that sort of stuff.

LOVE LIFE: Seeing the lovely Graham.

BODY BITS: 5ft 9ins, short brown hair, blue eyes, 11 stone-ish.

FAMILY: Parents are divorced. I had three brothers, all younger than me. The youngest, Michael, died in January 2001 at the age of 30 from a heart attack. My mum remarried.

PROFESSION: Journalist by trade but work for a bank on their website.

HOBBIES: Montgomery Clift, jigging about on dancefloors, space, building web sites, trying to keep fit (although you'd never know from looking at me) and I just love being with friends. Also reading, walks, cinema, blah de blah.

FEARS: All creepy crawlies, snakes, frogs and toads, big moths, flying.

MUSIC: Dance - particularly house and trance. Andy Williams. Pop in small doses.

TV: Ally McBeal, Queer as Folk, This Life, Tales of the City series, EastEnders, documentaries of all kinds.

FILMS: Montgomery Clift movies, Citizen Kane, Chaplin films, most Hitchcock, The Thin Red Line, EM Forster adaptations (like A Room With A View and Maurice), Where Eagles Dare, Bond films (especially On Her Majesty's Secret Service), Moulin Rouge, Once Upon a Time in America (and other Leone films), Pink Panther films, Excalibur, American Beauty, Dr Zhivago (and other David Lean films).

DRINK: Lager, dry white wine, vodka

DISLIKES: Homophobes, racists, right-wingers, people who chew gum loudly (I know that's anal), curry, Coronation Street (British TV soap), football, people who go to bed early, whisky, brandy, gin, Rupert Murdoch, body fascists (well you have to in my position), drum n bass, soul music, Margaret Thatcher, the Daily Mail, Labour governments that say one thing and do another, do you want me to go on?

YES, GIVE ME MORE DISLIKES: People who vomit on the street, British licensing laws (soon to change), shaving, French cheeses, capital punishment, body odour, people who don't like Montgomery Clift, parmesan cheese. I think that's enough.

LIKES: All the things you'd find on this site, open-minded people, Italian food, chocolate, shopping, skiing, lying on a beach, friends, eyeing up gorgeous men on trains/buses/the street, white wine, warm bread with melted butter, the shower after being in the gym for an hour, lager, Hitchcock films, The Pink Panther films, wandering aimlessly around London, Tomb Raider on Playstation, sunshine, travelling to foreign cities, smoothies, my willy and too many other things too tedious to mention.

MONARCHY OR REPUBLIC: Definitely republic.

WHO SHOULD BE THE UK'S FIRST PRESIDENT: Ken Livingstone.

COUNTRIES VISITED: France, Canary Islands, Italy, USA (but only Chicago), Spain, Netherlands, Czech Republic (Prague), Switzerland, Greece (mainland and Crete), Ireland, Germany (Berlin, Hamburg).

If you want to contact me, for some insane reason, then you can do so at f4monty@aol.com

Thank you, and goodnight.