David Walliams

Simon Cowell "marries" David Walliams for sketch

Ladies man Simon Cowell finally ties the knot - but it looks like the "bride" is his old BGT pal David Walliams - however, it's all a sketch for Comic Relief

David Walliams and Alan Carr in Comic Relief sketch

David Walliams will reveal an intimate secret to celebrity friends in a Comic Relief sketch.

South Shields Lecture 2013 - with David Walliams

All in all, the Little Britain star has raised around £8m for charity since 2003 - namely in foreign aid - but tonight's question and answer session brings the conversation closer to home, to the cuts North East communities are facing right now.

David Walliams wishes he could be a full-time writer

David Walliams could turn his back on TV to become a full-time writer.

Wall of Fame axed for not being outrageous enough

David Walliams' show Wall Of Fame has been axed - after bosses decided it was not outrageous enough.

Singer Paloma Faith guest-stars as Georgia, a grating cockney showgirl brought to Blandings by cockscomb-haired idiot Freddie. Georgia takes an instant shine to clenched butler Beach, who's terrified.

Guy Andrews's adaptations of PG Wodehouse's stories have come in for flak from some viewers for being empty piffle, shorn of Wodehouse's wit. They have a point, and it's hard to see who the stories are aimed at. Still, Blandings fills a need for a bit of nonsense on a Sunday afternoon, where it's won audiences of more than five million. So there are many people who will doubtless enjoy David Walliams's return as fussy secretary Baxter.

David Walliams teases Simon Cowell on BGT

David Walliams has taken a cheeky swipe at Britain's Got Talent boss Simon Cowell asking him: "How old are you? You've had a lot of work done."

David Walliams guest-stars as Baxter, a pernickety secretary brought in by the formidable Aunt Constance to clear up the mess of her halfwitted brother Lord Emsworth (Timothy Spall).

He starts by re-classifying his boss's marbles collection. "I promise you, I will regularise your brother," he announces before attacking the hapless Emsworth's paperwork with terrifying zeal. It's another sweetly funny episode in Guy Andrews's adaptations of the PG Wodehouse stories. Just think of it as The Idiot Downton Abbey, where absurd toffs get into muddles, usually with pigs and women.

Emsworth's impecunious rooster-haired buffoon of a son, Freddie (smashing Jack Farthing), has once again lost his allowance, this time in a doomed wager with fellow Drones Club member Catsmeat Potter Pirbright. After eating dog biscuits to impress a girl, Freddie decides to make his fortune selling canine nibbles. Biffing!