Jake Humphrey reveals how failing exams led to TV career as he is set to play Glasgow show

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Jake Humphrey is hopeful Lewis Capaldi’s Netflix documentary will act as a reminder to people that chasing money and fame doesn’t make your life easier.The presenter, who yesterday announced he was quitting BT Sport after a decade, has been on our screens for a quarter of a century but only now feels useful, thanks to his High Performance Podcast.In it, he and psychologist Damian Hughes look into the lives of world-class performers – the common thread is you aren’t born to succeed and once you have, all your ills won’t go away.This was apparent on Lewis’s ­documentary How I’m Feeling Now, which exposed his mental health struggles as he tried to write his second album after becoming one of the UK’s most successful singers and breaking the US.Jake, 44, said: “It should act as a really good reminder for people that, please don’t think that fame and money and success removes all of your fears or all of your worries, or makes life easier.

If anything, it can make life harder.“We shouldn’t be chasing money and fame. We should be chasing an inner happiness, an equilibrium, a satisfaction.“We had Tyson Fury come on the High Performance Podcast and share a very similar message to that – his happiness comes when he is in the ring and his fear is not being in the ring.”Jake had his own mental health issues and gets his fair share of trolling given the former Formula 1 presenter changed lanes from TV presenter to self-help guru – currently taking the High Performance Podcast on tour, which comes to ­Glasgow’s King’s Theatre tonight.In March he went viral after posting about his morning routine including 5am starts and writing a planning list.He said: “None of that information was new.