Vic starts community service

Vic Reeves has started the 100 hours community service he was ordered to do after crashing his vintage Jaguar while over the alcohol limit.

The comic is working as a labourer on a building site to convert a former boxing club into a performing arts school in Maidstone, Kent.

Reeves, 46, is pictured in today’s London Evening Standard  wearing shorts and heavy black workboots,  and claimed to be enjoying the manual work.

He told the paper: 'I think what is happening here is great.

'I am learning new skills which I am going to be trying out at home now.

'We have got an awful lot done already, but there is still loads to do, and I am going to keep going with it.

'I have great plans for the windows to paint pictures of famous writers and playwrights on them. It's going to be fantastic when it is all finished.'

As a result of his conviction, Reeves was lost his lucrative contract to provide voiceovers for insurance company Churchill.

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Published: 10 Jun 2005