Nauyokas, Richard –  Nasty Nookie is not all bad

Richard Nauyokas (b1962)

RICHARD Nauyokas sprang to fame playing himself in the TV reality series Lads Army and the sequel  Bad Lads Army.

Wide Westgate-born Richard – known as Nookie – was a pupil at Spittlegate School and then the Boys Central School.

He joined the army in 1980, leaving as a Warrant Officer Class 2 (Squadron Sergeant Major) after 22 years of service in which he undertook duties as a driver, radio operator, Physical Training Instructor and Military Training Instructor.

After unsuccessfully applying for the sergeant major role in the 2002 ITV series Lads Army, he accepted the offer of joining the show as the snarling corporal in charge of Blue Section, a role he continued to play during the subsequent Bad Lads Army series in 2004, 2006 and 2008.

The latter charted the progress of young tearaways put through the rigours of conscript training in a Fifties-style boot camp.

Since the series  finished he set up a company called Not All Bad, offering residential boot camps to young men in prison and those with lesser criminal convictions, but without the cameras.

He also played the role of a fitness instructor in the reality television show “There’s Something About Miriam” (2004) and himself in “Greatest Ever 80s Movies” (2008).

After a spell in Aberdare, South Wales, he moved with his family to Billingborough.

He now runs motivational courses in the Lincoln area.