Not Normal: The uncensored account of an extraordinary true life story

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When Paul Connolly was just two weeks old, his mother put him out with the rubbish. “one of the neighbours heard me crying and called the police. They came and got me, and I was taken away by social services.” Born the seventh boy of eight children to an Irish Catholic family in Stratford, in london’s east end, he spent his earliest years living with nuns in a convent. As well as telling his story, Paul has been working with the charity Beanstalk, which supports children and adults with specialist medical conditions, where he has raised thousands for the charity. I am proud to say that I have seen hundreds of patients and clients become free of pain, recover from injury or illness through rehabilitation and lose weight, get fit and participate in sporting events all at levels they had never expected.

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Many others suffered various forms of abuse by the home’s staff and the housemaster, Bill Starling, was eventually jailed in 2001 for 14 years for the horrific crimes he committed. After now after publishing three books and having a film, Six from Eight, set to be released, Paul is continuing to tell his story. We constantly monitor progress and update programmes and I incorporate many different techniques and disciplines into client training and rehabilitation programmes. These were the first sort of serious role models that I found weren’t trying to bugger me or beat me up.” he recalls. He left school at 14 and started work on a veg stall in Romford market. He looked set to become a professional boxer and was about to sign a contract at the age of 18, when a severe accident meant that he technically died from loss of blood. The next few years were a struggle.Frankie Pironi and his brother Paul Connolly (Credit: Wall To Wall Productions/ITV) Long Lost Family series 13 Paul Connolly: Not Normal: The Uncensored Account of an Extraordinary True Life Story, 2018. ISBN 978-1-982908-71-3 My most recent book, Not Normal, is the inspiration for Big Boys Don’t Cry and gave me an opportunity to tell even more of our story – especially on behalf of those who are no longer with us or who felt unable to speak up in the way I have. With no real schooling and no positive male role models, Paul gained a reputation as a violent schoolboy, which at least protected him from the attentions of his potential abusers. When he was nine, he joined a boxing club. Here, he fi nally found a group of men who took him in, trained him and fed him. Episode one follows two very different stories of men searching for family and the truth about their beginnings. As well as the amazing true story of Paul Connolly, the show helps Shaun Lawrence.

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verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ He reveals that a local shop owner called Pino was jokingly referred to as his dad when he was growing up. However, tests prove that Phillip Psaila – aka Pino – was in fact Paul’s father. He says: “I love the fact that I’ve been able to give my kids everything I never had. With my sons, it was paramount that they never felt insecure or lonely, or that desperation that I felt. I felt loneliness as a child that was like a physical pain. It’s painful to be that alone. So for my kids, I’m always making sure they know I’m there.” Alastair Campbell tells The Best You what drives him, the struggle with mental illness, the problem with education and...These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Directed by Steve Crowhurst , who also wrote the script. He made the film under the title Six from Eight . Crowhurst had already taken on Connolly's story in the short film of the same name, which he presented in 2019, in October 2019 in front of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Read more: Man abandoned in telephone box breaks down as he finally discovers why his mum left him at six days old: ‘Horrendous’ Everyman Chelmsford will premiere a new feature film in aid of an Essex children's charity next month. The film will star This is England and Being Human actor, Michael Socha, who will play an adult Paul in the film. Kids Inspire do amazing work and I hope that between us and with this film reaching a wider audience, we will continue to make positive changes together." To launch the release of Big Boys Don't Cry, Screenbound Pictures is hosting a screening of the film on Monday, September 5 to raise money for Great Baddow-based Kids Inspire.Paul has been a regular on TV and radio and featured on Channel 4’s primetime “Who Knows Best” receiving much praise for his methods from the public and other therapists and trainers. Paul created the trademarked exercise programme “ Boxerobics” and this propelled his early career as a celebrity trainer and led to many TV appearances. The multi award-winning ITV1 series Long Lost Family continues with more incredible and moving stories of people desperate to find missing family. Shaun, 54, had a happy adoption with wonderful parents but was always curious about his birth parents. When he began looking into his adoption, he made a remarkable discovery.

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That’s no revenge; your life is over, your revenge should be to go on and have a happy family and to be a successful man and prove these people wrong.” We work by appointment only (requiring at least 24 hours notice of any cancellation or change) in a private air conditioned studio in the Billericay & Brentwood area, but I am glad to say that clients travel from all over to work with us!Following Paul Connolly’s harrowing yet inspirational true life story, having grown up in the notorious St Leonard’s Children’s Home in Hornchurch in the 1970s, Big Boys Don’t Cry sees Paul, played by Michael Socha, recall his traumatic childhood at the home following a police investigation into his boyhood friend's suicide. Digging deeper, Shaun discovered that his birth parents had two further children together: his full sisters, Michelle and Natalie. In very emotional scenes, Shaun meets them, and finds out the real reason why they gave him away. Sadly Pino died in 1968. However, Paul is thrilled to meet a half brother on his dad’s side. His half brother Frankie Pironi, 62, lives in Southend and is one of three siblings Pino had with an Irish Catholic woman. Unbelievably, the two men discover they went to the same school and were there at the same time. In and out of trouble with the law since he was very young, Paul Connolly was not well pleased when, in his twenties, two policewomen came to his door. The news they told him stunned him. Of all the children in his dormitory at the abusive orphanage where he’d grown up, only he and one other were still alive. Most likely as a result of the horrendous sexual abuse they had suffered, nearly all his friends had committed suicide. The news made Paul reconsider the direction of his whole life and start to make something positive from it. The Best You discovers how despite the worst of beginnings, Paul Connolly became a famous celebrity fitness trainer and a bestselling author – even though he only learned to read when he was 25 years old. Sue Bell OBE said: "Paul Connolly’s story is one of hope. After experiencing years of extreme abuse at St Leonard’s children’s home, followed by years of gang-related violence in London, he turned his life around.