Remember The Big Breakfast, the wacky Channel 4 light entertainment show from the 1990s? The light-hearted weekday-morning staple turned Chris Evans into a star, launched the careers of Gaby Roslin and Denise Van Outen and, rather regrettably, unleashed Zig and Zag on a wider audience. The Big Breakfast became the UKs highest-rated breakfast TV programme, and a certain Simon Cowell must have been watching you can blame him for the brief pop career of the alien duo, among other atrocities.Someone else who must have tuned in around then was a young Tom Hardy, as in 1998 he participated in the shows Find Me a Supermodel competition and won. Along with a cash prize, Hardy was awarded a professional contract with the agency Models One, but he soon realised he felt more comfortable in the field of acting: I tried to be a model when I was 19 and I was sh*t. I can only function if I become someone else.