STILL Game star Ford Kiernan has revealed how a careers teacher once recommended he become an egg packer.

The Craiglang sitcom returned to TV screens on Friday for the first time in nine years, to wide acclaim.

It was watched by more than 1.3 million fans – more than half of Scotland’s TV viewers.

But co-writer Kiernan, who also plays evergreen pensioner Jack Jarvis opposite co-creator Greg Hemphill’s Victor McDade, revealed his dreams of making it on TV could have been dashed by the dodgy careers advice.

Kiernan, 54, also revealed he once trained as a tailor and worked in more than a dozen clothes shops, but made a catalogue of mistakes and was sacked more than once.

He said: “I had a careers teacher called Mr Gibson, who’s long gone now. I was called to his office and he asked me what I wanted to do. I said ‘I would like to be a cameraman for STV’.

“He went ‘ah, no, going by what’s available just now, probably egg packing would be the thing you would be better at’.”

Kiernan also revealed he sat down with his family to watch Still Game’s triumphant TV return.

The new six-part series started with an episode called Gadgets.

The old codgers experimented with new fangled technology, with hilarious results. But rather than watch the television, Kiernan sat facing his loved ones and examined their facial expressions instead.