GO ON STRICTLY LIKE ROB? ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Despite having appeared on pretty much every panel show going, David rules out signing up to a reality show such as I’m A Celebrity. ‘No, I would never do that. Why, if you needed the money, why wouldn’t you just temp?’ he says without hesitation. His longrunning comedy partner in crime Robert

Webb has done just that though, appearing on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.

‘I absolutely wouldn’t,’ insists David.

‘On a dance floor, if I’m not careful, I just fall still. But it’s a great show. I love watching it and my daughter loves it and I’m very, very proud of Rob for doing it. He’s good at it, but I think he’ll get bored with practising dancing. My optimum amount of dance practice in a given week is zero hours, except for a few weeks when I was rehearsing for Upstart Crow [the stage version of his sitcom about William Shakespeare] in the West End last year, when we did a dance at the end. Those bits of dance practice were the bad bits.’