The campest of comics, Alan Carr, admits the naughtiest thing he has ever done when working was get drunk with Westlife on ‘Chatty Man’.
He once got tipsy on his BBC Radio 2 show but took it to a whole new level when he had the Irish band on his show months ago.
“The most hammered I got was doing shots with Westlife on ‘Chatty Man’,” he tells the Irish Sun’s Fabulous magazine.
“I had six shots, but TV rules mean you can’t glamourise drinking so they edited three out. It looked like I was a complete lightweight because my eyes were rolling and I was dribbling.”
The British funnyman admits to living the dream.
“I’m loving it. I’d never have met the people I’ve met on Chatty Man if I was still working in a call centre. There’s not many jobs where you get loads of love and loads of money.”
He has the UK and beyond in stitches every week but says there are things that make him laugh too, most notably people falling over.
“Have you seen that video of that girl standing on butter to ‘Rolling in the Deep’? It’s so funny! The best heckle I ever got was when I was performing one time in Birmingham. I asked a man in the front row what he did for a living and he told me he was an ambulance man. Then I asked him what was the worst thing he had ever seen and he replied, ‘you’. Harsh.”
Alan Carr is a prolific tweeter and sees it as an achievement that he could clog up your Twitter newsfeed quite easily within minutes. He says he uses the micro-blogging site when he gets lonely.
“Sometimes you do get a bit lonely,” he says, “If I’m sitting at home watching ‘Come Dine With Me’ and the starter looks sh**e, instead of saying it to my two dogs, I can tweet it.”
The comic and well-known gossip admits the best piece of gossip he ever had was when Adele told him she was pregnant, and he was delighted he was able to keep it to himself for so long.
“I was all ‘do not tell me this because I will have a glass of wine and tell someone I shouldn’t’, I’m the worst for telling secrets and gossip. I think she was pleased the news didn’t come out from me.”
Alan has been with his patrner Paul Drayton for four years now but said they are not going to tie the knot.
“It’s not like I don’t love him, it’s just we’ve been to so many straight friends’ weddings and it all seems so stressy.”
Alan Carr’s ‘Summer Spectacular’ airs on Friday on Channel 4. ‘Alan Carr: Chatty Man’ returns in September.
