ADRIAN Bower is best known for his role as the hapless and incompetent PE teacher Brian, in Channel 4's popular comedy drama series Teachers, which is now back on the box for a third series.
 Brian and his comic sidekick Kurt - played with considerable aplomb by Navin Chowdhry - are fast becoming the new comedy duo of our time. Imagine if you can a cross between The Krankies and Burt and Ernie from Sesame Street and you have some idea what we're talking about. It may sound like a surreal concoction but together they seem to fit right in to the fictional world of Summerdown School, as we follow a group of teachers who are more juvenile than their pupils. Bower, 32, is completely unfazed by the all attention of appearing in a popular show and admits that "it's not as if we get mobbed in the streets when we are filming. "If anything most of the kids who see us normally start laughing at us, so I don't think we are up there with any of the big Hollywood movie stars just yet ." That's not to say that the Chester-born Bower doesn't have a good time when he is filming the show. "It always has been great," he says. "I think Nav and I went out less this time because we had more work to do. But I had a pub just round the corner from where I was living, with a big garden, so that was really useful for me as it was practically backing onto my house, and it would have been silly not to pop in. "And I could always learn my lines in the garden." Bower may be London-based these days but he still manages to pop home to Chester to see members of the family, but changes are afoot. "My mum Gwyneth has sold up in Chester, and she has gone on holiday - in fact she has done a Shirley Valentine!" he says. "But I've got aunts and uncles in Chester. When I am at home I like going up Moel Famau mountain, as it's a good place to relax and clear you head ." Bower's current career is a far cry from the range of jobs he has done in the past - among them he has worked on a building site, for British Aerospace, in a laundry and has delivered ice cream for a living. It was while Adrian was working for British Aerospace that he heard the good news - he'd landed a place at Guildhall School of Drama in London. "It was as undoubtedly the best day of my life," he recalls. "I went to work on a real high that day - and made a mad run for it across the airfield. It was during the time of the Gulf War and security was really tight. | 
