I'm not sure boys respond to role models in quite the way girls do.

Certainly, when I was a teenager, the lads used to lionise soccer players and other sportsmen, while acknowledging that they would never be like them. The kind of celebrities we get today didn't exist back then, of course. There were popular actors playing popular roles in popular shows, but none of us would have aped the behaviour of Roger Moore in The Saint, for instance! Pop stars were worse, the strutting arrogance of Mick Jagger, or the androgyny and ambiguity of David Bowie? Let the girls sigh over them. That left our Dads, who we were determined not to be like! Except for the geeks and nerds who modelled themselves on Mr Spock, or No.6 from The Prisoner!