Hollywood actor Rob Lowe remembers his time on hit TV drama The West Wing fondly, because former US President Bill Clinton often pitched plot ideas to him.
Lowe, who worked on the show about a fictional US president for four years starting in 1999, was amazed he ended up discussing possible ways to take The West Wing forward with the real-life leader.
He says: "I'd find myself in situations, shooting in Washington, where they'd say, '(Secretary Of State) Madeleine Albright is coming down, can you wait to see her?'
"Or I'd be in the Oval Office with President Clinton and he'd be pitching story ideas! It was literally surreal."