Article: Real Lives: Ginger nuts: Why being red is brilliant; Big Brother's Ginger Tim became a laughing stock when the world discovered he dyed his red hair black. But Titian-haired types aren't all embarrassed by their colouring. This lot are red and proud...(Features)

Byline: Sarah Smith.

Charlie Dimmock, 36, a TV presenter, lives in Hampshire. She is currently single.

`When I was born the nurses took me off to show the doctors because I had so much red hair. It's a family thing. My dad and my little sister Jessica both have it.

`I was three or four when I realised having red hair was special. Old ladies would point at me and say what lovely hair I had. But by the time I was seven or eight I'd begun to go off it as I was teased at school. I'd get called Ginger Nut, and the new one was Duracell, because the ...

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