Jason Manford busted

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

‘Claiming to know how another person experiences sex is like claiming to know how another person experiences tomatoes.’ Frank Skinner on the Stephen Fry hoo-hah.

Jason Manford has been caught out exchanging 'racy' Twitter messages with a female fan. While bored on tour he began flirting with Debra McNamee, who had contacted him through the social networking site, and asked her to send topless pictures of herself. Manford, a married dad of two with a third on the way, then told her exactly how he enjoyed looking at them. Now McNamee, 22, told all to The Sun. On The One Show yesterday, Manford said: 'I can see now that what started out as a bit of messing about and having a laugh on Twitter has been misjudged and I'd like to apologise to anyone that this has offended as that was the last thing I ever intended to do.'

Joseph Fritzl is a big fan of Two And A Half Men. He say: 'It loosens me up, makes me break out with laughter. It destroys the soul if one is always deathly sad. The young kid in it reminds me of my son.'

Alan Davies has refused to host Danny Baker's 5 Live show tomorrow morning, saying he won't cross the picket line of striking BBC journalists. However, his decision has caused ructions after some on Twitter interpreted his decision as some sort of insult to Baker, who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Michael McIntyre wears a Rolex Daytona – a model you can’t get for under £8,000.

Publicists who threw a party to celebrate the return of Alan Patridge to the internet today completely forgot to invite one man... producer and co-writer Armando Iannucci. He vented his frustration on Twitter, tweeting: 'Congratulations to Naked Communications on this publicity. You completely forgot to invite me to the Alan Partridge press launch last night.'

Robert Llewellyn got pulled over by heavily armed anti-terror cops when filming his new car-based interview show, Carpool. The officers were alerted when his Toyota Prius, with darkened windows and rigged up with mini-cameras and microphones, entered a sensitive part of London. ‘We were just driving round the block, but the block happened to go past MI6,’he said. ‘So there we were in a white car, with blacked-out windows and a big camera thing strapped on the side that could look like a gun, and - what a surprise - we got pulled over by the anti-terror police. They were armed to the teeth. I was actually quite scared. I thought they might say this is illegal. I got out of the car and he said, “Oh it's you - carry on.” I didn't even have to say anything.’

Harry Hill has revealed that ITV chiefs wanted to change the name of TV Burp because they thought it was offensive. But then the show took off, and they couldn't do anything about it.

Billy Connolly – who has just been dumped as the face of Australian bank ING for a talking orangutan – has defended his decision to do ads, saying: 'It's good to do it, and it's good to do it well because it's acting. And when you're acting, you have to say things you disapprove of, but you take pride in doing it well.' And he said stand-ups who adhered to Bill Hicks' philosophy that being paid to endorse a product meant you were 'off the artistic roll call forever' were wrong. 'I think comics make rulebooks for themselves that they don't really need,' he said. ;If you start saying, "I'm a rebel", are you going to turn down a movie where you play a nice guy? Image is bullshit. When you start making decisions based on your image, you're in deep shit."

Anyone else think Guinness are just making up arbitrary world records now? This week they’ve awarded the record for Longest Distance Travelled With A Fridge to Tony Hawks the comedian who wrote Round Ireland With A Fridge. It only took them 13 years to realise Hawks did the 1,000-mile journey – but did so just in time for the film version of his quest. And anyway wouldn’t, say, a fridge delivery man often travel more than 1,000 miles with a fridge. So the Guinness World Record for Most Opportunistic Piece Of PR Bullshit goes to… Guinness!

Tweets of the week:
Boyd Hilton (@boydhilton): Would rather Channel 5 was on strike instead. That would make for a Winter Of Contentment
Dave Cohen (@cohendave): My gran used to tell me, 'If you can't think of anything nice to say, you must be Julie Burchill.'
Primly Stable (@PrimlyStable): Had the Scots been involved Mr Fawkes would have been released early on compassionate grounds.

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