Jack Whitehall

Whitehall under pressure to step down from TV Awards

Comedian Jack Whitehall is under pressure to stand down as presenter of a prize at the National Television Awards following complaints about his performance on a recent Channel 4 panel show.

Jack Whitehall's NTA role 'safe' after Big Fat Quiz row

TV bosses have publicly denied claims made in The Daily Mail that Jack Whitehall may be forced to quit his role as presenter of the National Television Awards.

Last year's specstacular saw Alan do impressions taking the mickey out of easy targets Cher Lloyd, the Beckhams and Wills and Kate.

This year he'll be getting up to more festive fooling around, party games and sketches with the help of his guest mates.

Former Radio 2 pal Melanie Sykes, Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall, Christine Bleakley, Gok Wan and Bruno Mars join in the New Year fun.

Then there's Rylan Clark - one of the few guests who can make Alan look butch by comparison.

The line-up might not be as A-list as Graham Norton's, but this is exactly the kind of party you'd want to be invited to.

The British Comedy Awards dared to ignore our favourite student sitcom: the jury deserve to have their cheeks drilled through by a hungover dentistry undergrad forthwith. Series two was rich with spiky one-liners and involving story arcs. Into the former category falls JP (Jack Whitehall) in his sick bed with mumps, deploying a rape alarm to summon soup and justifying himself with: "I am sort of being raped by my lack of soup." The storyline award goes to Oregon falling for the son of the lecturer she slept with - and working for his wife.

Jack Whitehall: the funny thing about being posh

The British Comedy Awards' newly crowned King of Comedy Jack Whitehall discovered to his surprise that playing up his middle-class roots only made him more popular.

Jack Whitehall dresses as a ballerina for ALOTO

On tomorrow's episode of A League Of Their Own we'll see the stand-up comedian slip into a ballerina's outfit.

Where next for Jack Whitehall?

So Jack Whitehall has been crowned the King (and Queen) of comedy, what next?

Interview: Jack Whitehall

Comedian Jack Whitehall is famous for playing slacker toffs in Fresh Meat and Bad Education. He shares an unusual moment with Metro in which he was expelled from a friend's party for peeing in a Wellie.

The seasonal return of the Little Crackers series, which features comedy shorts based on the autobiographical recollections of various actors and comedians. Previous participants have included Stephen Fry, Victoria Wood, Jack Whitehall and Sheridan Smith. This latest series begins with Joanna Lumley's Baby, Be Blonde, in which the 19-year-old Jo (Ottilie Mackintosh) is a struggling model who gets a break when she buys a blonde wig. "It didn't, but it made me feel that I had changed the course of my life," says Lumley in the behind-the-scenes film which follows the short. Also starring this week in later episodes are Rebecca Front and Caroline Quentin.