A contrite Birmingham Mail reporter has praised his "fantastic" paper – the day after drunkenly resigning from it on YouTube.

Yesterday, we reported how a film featuring Adam Smith – aka Steve Zacharanda – had been posted on the video sharing website of him quitting his job while the worse for wear.

Adam was in America for the presidential election vote and filing copy for the Birmingham Post and Mail and sister title the Sunday Mercury.

Now, a follow-up video (below) entitled 'Birmingham Mail, the day after' has been uploaded to YouTube with Adam in a Barack Obama campaign office.

In it, he says: "Had a bit of a surprise this morning when I woke up and realised I was a YouTube sensation.

"I think I've lost my job – don't really remember much about it."

In the first video Adam says he was copying words from the BBC website and filing it as his own – something he clarifies is untrue in the second video.

He added: "I am a bit scared to speak to work. I've been told there have been words like 'outrageous', 'bringing the company into disrepute' which I'm so sorry if I have.

"The Birmingham Mail is a fantastic organisation staffed by people who really care.

"I have gotta leave next week along with 65 others due to job cuts at the Birmingham Mail."

Adam/Steve's online fanbase appears to be growing as a Steve Zacharanda Appreciation Society has been set up on Facebook while comments on YouTube call for him to be knighted.

He is planning new ventures Goggle-eye Magazine and Cheeky Media.

A Trinity Mirror spokesman said that Adam was expected back in work on Monday and stressed that no plagiarism had taken place.