Meeting 18-year-old Billy Walden in the immediate aftermath of his appearance on TV series George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, it was initially difficult to reconcile this quiet, modest young man with the media storm he was in the centre of. During the time we spent with him and his family on the Lancaster Canal, he received several phone calls from national newspapers and magazines keen to find out more about his story. That morning too his mother had been busily engaged in signing copies of her new book, Matilda Jayne: Our Great Canal Boat Journey, which documents his and his family's waterways adventure. There was also talk of Billy taking on more TV work and representing charities, and it's fair to say that he has become something of a celebrity in and around his home town of Lancaster.
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