YNOT EUROPE – Before Benedict Garrett created a scandal by working part-time as a porn actor and escort while teaching school — and well before he appeared as a contestant on Big Brother UK — the man now known as Johnny Anglais went by the name Jonny Cockfill. A random meeting with British performer-director Tanya Tate on the set of a Television X movie landed Cockfill, then a porn wannabe, on Tate’s casting couch in a head-to-head shootout, of sorts, with Irish hurler Greg Jacob.

The resulting video demonstrates that even men who go on to become adult entertainment professionals can have a bad day.

Hidden in Tate’s vault until now, the scene is posted on her official website, TanyaTate.com. The site specializes in showcasing scenes from Tate’s popular Casting Couch series, a pro-am affair that gives porn-star hopefuls an opportunity to see if they could make it under the bright lights of sexual stardom.

Anglais almost didn’t. Whether put off by the presence of Jacob — a professional athlete whose appearance in another of Tate’s Casting Couch episodes incited a scandal of its own — or simply suffering beginner’s performance anxiety, Anglais suffered an inauspicious start.

That tidbit, of course, hit the British tabloid press.

“I find it amazing that Tanya Tate’s Casting Couch seems to be make the mainstream press with the lads who have performed in the series,” Tate said. “I work very hard on producing the series, and I am thrilled with the exposure it has received. Fans can watch regular guys try out to see if they can make it as a porn star.

“Some guys do go on to make movies, which is just what Johnny Anglais did,” she added. “Hopefully he will last longer in the Big Brother household than he did on the Tanya Tate casting couch.”