The week's trivia round-up

• Why did Aussie comic Brendon Burns walk from ITV2's I’m A Celebrity…? spin-off. Could it have something to do with producers wanting him to wear a cork hat on screen – not quite the image the firebrand usually fosters.

• The Old Boatstore cafe in Kingsand, Cornwall, has put on display the bottom of the ice-cream cone that Hugh Dennis left uneaten when he visited. The prize exhibit in their ‘museum' is the remains of Pete Doherty’s cheese, tomato and pesto toastie.

• Former Spitting Image producer John Lloyd says ITV blew its chances of bringing back the show by sneakily making new puppets including Ant and Dec for a tribute show in June – against the wishes of series creator Roger Law, who has now vetoed a comeback.

• When if.comeddie award-winner Phil Nichol got his guitar out at the BBC London Children in Need benefit on Tuesday, he was greeted with the inevitable piercing shriek of ‘Gay Eskimo’, demanding his greatest hit. Thank you, loudmouth Vanessa Feltz…

• Bruce Dessau, comedy critic of the London Evening Standard, used to be Peter Cook’s binman. And Joe Pasquale use to work in a margarine factory

• Stephen Merchant loved Friends because ‘it seemed to reflect a lot of the thoughts I was having about chasing women’.

• Click here to see what Kate Moss looks like as Vicky Pollard’s sister – the role she’ll play in the Little Britain gala for Comic Relief. Russell Brand will appear in the show, too, as a plumber for the rubbish transsexuals Emily and Florence. And Jonathan Ross will be vomited on by the racist WI types Maggie and Judy

SOURCES: Chortle, Metro, Broadcast, Chortle, The Best Stand Up And Comedy Routines book/The Sun, London Lite, The Sun

Published: 17 Nov 2006