Swampy The magistrate passing sentence on him was David Cameron's mother. Swampy was originally from Newbury, Berkshire, the site of the protest over the Newbury bypass, and he then lived with his parents in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire. Hooper's subsequent fame included an appearance on the BBC comedy current affairs quiz "Have I Got News for You", on 18 April 1997, when he briefly became the show's youngest ever panelist. In 1997, he took part in another tunnel protest intended to prevent the building of a second runway at Manchester Airport, and has also been involved with the Trident nuclear submarine protest camp
Tom Hooper Tom Hooper Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is an English film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films as a teenager, and had his first professional short, "Painted Faces", broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of "Quayside", "Byker Grove", "EastEnders" and "Cold Feet" on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas "Love in a Cold Climate" (2001) and "Daniel Deronda" (2002), and was selected to helm the 2003 revival of ITV's "Prime Suspect"