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Colin Lamont, better known as the fictional radio personality, Scottie McClue, is a media consultant, actor, writer, and broadcaster.

Early Career
Lamont was educated at the University of Glasgow, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Jordanhill College of Education, where he trained as a secondary school teacher.

He started his career working as a trainee manager for the Clydesdale Bank before joining Scottish Opera in 1980 working in a number of roles including Touring Manager, Marketing Officer and Director of Education Programmes. In 1981 He became Assistant General Manager at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

In 1984 he became a continuity announcer and newscaster for Grampian Television(1984–85), before moving to Scottish Television (1985–88) and Border Television (1985 - 1989)

In 1989 he set up the radio station CentreSound 96.7 in Stirling as its founding managing director leaving within three months of the station's June 1990 launch due to restructuring of senior management at the station and changes to the board.

In August 2008, Lamont became a shareholder of Scottish independent local radio station L107 along with Alan Shields. Lamont invested more than £62,000 into the business and ran L107's programming and broadcast on the station under his Scottie McClue persona. The station experienced financial difficulties during 2009, and Lamont left the station, accusing Shields of not contributing his funding.