It all began at my nan's funeral. My sisters suddenly said 'God all mighty, doesn't he look like Tom Jones?'

I got to look more and more like him as I got older (I'm 20 years younger than Tom) and now it's uncanny.

Then people started saying why don't you do a tribute act? I did sing a bit, but the stuff I was singing as a hobby was Guns 'n' Roses - rock.

I was a BT engineer but had an accident at work, then a car crash, so I was off work for a while and had time to really study Tom.

I listened to his songs, watched his live shows, started practising the vibrato and things, and it developed from there. I got advice from other singers about breathing and technique, and watching Tom more closely. I could see he breathes through his nose a lot - it gives you more air in your lungs to belt out the songs.

My first gigs were charity gigs with an Elvis impersonator and it's gone crazy since then. I only put my website up this year and people are starting to discover it and want to book me. There's even a picture of me with some dancers on Tom's own website.

I was asked to double up for Tom by S4C's Wedi Saith programme when he was doing his Pontypridd show. People started screaming as they drove past me and all we were doing was standing by the gates!

One of my dad's friends said I should try Vegas. I looked online and I found that there's only one Tom Jones impersonator there. I think I could do better. Tom himself only lives about 300 miles away in Santa Monica. I'd love to meet him, get my picture taken with him - like a twins photo!

My favourite song would have to be Sex Bomb, but I do a much more disco dance version of it, which goes down really well. Some of the most difficult songs to do are I Who Have Nothing and Boy from Nowhere, the big ballads. They're quite a test so I tend to finish on a high energy song like Kiss.

I think my biggest gig so far was with G4 at Cheltenham. There must have been about 15,000 people there. My agent told me it was just a local radio thing so I had absolutely no idea. But once I was there with the other artists, I just had to get on with it - go on stage and do my stuff. And I was asked back on for an encore!

It's true that the ladies bring knickers to the gigs. They're handy, because I get really sweaty on stage especially because I use wet-look hair gel, so I look for a pair of knickers to wipe my brow. We find them in all sorts of places after the gig - in the speaker covers, the mixing desk. The tiny little thongs can get anywhere! They've usually got a price tag still on them, thankfully!

I once did a gig in Malta and when I came back my friend said I was featured in the Daily Mail. On one page there was Johnny Two Jags (aka John Prescott the politician of course) and on the other page Johnny Two Gigs - me! I was shocked, but managed to get in contact with the journalist to find out how he'd heard about me. He said he'd seen my picture on the side of a bus in Malta and thought it would make a great story.

Having the same name as the politician is a bit annoying, especially when I call to make appointments. I was pulled up by the police once for speeding. They asked what my name was and they thought I was being funny and breathalysed me! I passed, and they checked me out and saw I was telling the truth.

So I have this crazy time performing in front of thousands of people sometimes, and then it's back home to Colwyn Bay and my family! My partner is great. She's my best critic. When I do a song for the first time she'll say 'that sounds like you, not Tom - there's no Welsh twang' and makes me go back and work on it more until she says, 'Wow, you will not improve on that'.

There's a Filipino guy who really does sound like Tom, but doesn't look like him. When people book a tribute act they want the looks and the moves. As long as your voice is maybe 90 per cent like Tom, that's fine. The whole package is the most important thing. I don't know where I'm going to go with this, but I'm definitely getting more busy - maybe I will go to Vegas!