WTF: Weekly Triva File

• Matt Lucas Twitters: ‘Some dickhead put a BNP leaflet through my door today. I’m a gay, Jewish liberal. You’re not exactly the first party I’m going to vote for.’

• Meanwhile he has admitted that Cheryl Cole could turn him straight. He said: ‘Cheryl Cole is the only woman who would turn me. I'm not joking. I've never slept with a woman, but she is absolutely gorgeous and I would happily make love to her on a beach.’ In the same interview, Lucas revealed that doctors have put him on a strict 1,500-calorie-a-day diet. He said: ‘ I didn’t want my health to be in danger. My dad died at 56. So I thought I needed to sort it out and take responsibility. I think I can still be funny if I’m not so fat.’

• Someone who has recently lost a shedload of weight is Johnny Vegas – but he thinks there is a side-effect: it’s made him less attractive to women. He said he was always ‘charming and sexy’, but added: ‘Now I look less vulnerable, if anything it's had a negative impact. I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers."

• Alan Carr is no fan of Miley Cyrus: ‘She is over-confident. She really got on my wick on the Jonathan Ross Show.’

• Russell Brand has been experiencing something he’s not used to: rejection. Australian pop star Jess Origliasso turned down his advances because he's too much of a ‘womaniser’, saying he slipped her his number but she declined to call back. Meanwhile Devil Wears Prada star Emily Blunt turned down a role as Brand's love interest in Get Him To The Greek because the sex scenes were too explicit.

• Seems rejection runs in the family. Spotted on an internet forum: ‘A friend of mine was approached by Russell Brand's dad on an internet dating site the other week. He got very stroppy when she turned him down. 'But you've specified GSOH - I'm Russell Brand's dad, ffs!’

• Unlikely friends: Bo Selecta’s Leigh Francis and Emma Bunton, who have gone on holiday to Orlando together with their respective families. Francis’s alter ego Avid Merrion used to joke about the former Spice Girl, saying: ‘Emma Bunton is gorgeous; she's got legs like sausages. And she's beautiful like meatdog.’

• Jim Davidson’s favourite bands are ELO, Yes and Tangerine Dream. So no black artists, then… But he does hate Coldplay.

• Man has a conversation into a microphone while no one listens. I think it's billled as stand-up...

• Bill Bailey spotted at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, this week, watching a new stage production of The Shawshank Redemption written by fellow comics Dave Johns and Owen O'Neill.

• Calm down, dear, it’s only a late-night E4 clips show… One viewer certainly doesn’t like Matt Kirshen’s work hosting Rude Tube, taking the trouble to send him a MySpace message which read: ‘I have recently taken to watching rude tube, and have come to the conclusion, you are the biggest tosser in television. You are apparently a comedian, you only succeed in making me want to cause you physical harm. How you ever gained the title of comedian is beyond me, How the fuck did you ever get on to television, please could you tell me so I can also become a talentless cunt, if I got the chance I would take pleasure in ruining your appearance so that you cannot appear on television ever again! How the fuck can you look at that show and think, wow, that was an entertaining an humourous joke, I believe people enjoy this, wow, I definitely shouldn’t kill myself. Right now, to me, you are equal to Margaret Thatcher, and just like Thatcher I hope you die soon, and will celebrate your funeral! You complete cunt!

SOURCES: Twitter, Heat, Zoo, Metro, Contactmusic/ Mail On Sunday. Holy Moly, Popbitch. YouTube, Twitter, MySpace

Published: 22 May 2009