Salvatore: My battery's about to run out order lusty libido His whole career – which for a time saw him enjoy a big burst of attention in Hollywood, including a memorable turn as a fraudulent suitor to Cameron Diaz in There’s Something About Mary – came about “by accident” he affirms. In a turning-point hilariously recounted in his autobiography The Life of Lee, he entered a talent show in Southend in 1985 as an act of desperation – after a spate of dead-end jobs and with only one O-level to his name – and didn’t put a foot right from the moment he stumbled onto the stage. And yet to his amazement, rather than booing him off, the audience couldn’t get enough of this madcap idiot and he won the £250 prize. In the time between his entrance and exit, the “singer-instrumentalist” had found his vocation.