Editing Dominik Diamond (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[Arbroath]], Scotland, Diamond attended [[Strathallan School]] in [[Forgandenny]], [[Perthshire]].<ref name="Dinner with Dominik Diamond">{{cite web|url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=665862002|title=Dinner with Dominik Diamond|work=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=2007-07-07|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203080200/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=665862002|archive-date=3 February 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He then went on to study drama at [[Bristol University]], where he was a contemporary of [[David Walliams]] and [[Simon Pegg]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Diamond |first=Dominik |title=GamesMaster: The Oral History |publisher=THAMES & HUDSON |date=2022 |isbn=9780500025918 |location=UK |pages=103|oclc=1306202604}}</ref> Diamond, Walliams and Pegg were part of a comedy troupe called "David Icke and The Orphans of Jesus". Walliams and Diamond fell out after Walliams appeared as a guest on Diamond and his friend (and ''GamesMaster'' commentator) Kirk Ewing's<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=279420|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230636/http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=279420|archive-date = 27 September 2007|title = News & Star}}</ref> [[Paramount Comedy 1|Paramount]] show ''Dom'n'Kirk's Night O Plenty'' – after which Diamond said that Walliams and co-''Little Britain'' star [[Matt Lucas]] were "complete arseholes" on the show. In a 2007 interview Diamond said that he had not spoken to Walliams since, whom he described as both a "comic genius" and a "twat."<ref name="DiamondGeezer">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=279420|title=Diamond Geezer|website=newsandstar.co.uk|access-date=2007-06-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230636/http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=279420|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref>