Gates takes speech lessons
Pop star Gareth Gates has passed exams to become a speech coach.
The 19-year-old stammerer is now fully qualified to teach other people how to overcome the problem and can expect to earn up to £500 (€746) a week.
However, the Pop Idol runner-up will not take any lessons on his own because too many fans are pretending they have speech problems in order to join his class according to Iain Mutch, northern director of the McGuire Programme, which runs workshops.
