Johnny Vegas

Johnny Vegas joins Aspergers film Womble

Johnny Vegas has agreed to play a part in Womble, a feature film about a man living with Aspergers Syndrome in a typical seaside resort town.

Showbiz saved Johnny Vegas from the bottle

Johnny Vegas, 44, said: "For the first few years on Benidorm I looked at it as more a holiday than a job. I'd sober up around lunchtime most days."

Review: (Johnny) Vegas, baby!

Ooh-yor-fightor, writes Gemma Collins, we've only gone and got Johnny Vegas on the phone. It's been a ridiculously long 18 years since we last spoke to the potty-mouthed, outrageous and aggressive comic. (Not for the want of trying, we hasten to add).

Fittingly enough, this hotel-based comedy is never short of guests - but the arrival of Joan Collins, playing Solana CEO Crystal Hennessy-Vass is still quite a surprise. Everyone is falling over themselves, some of them literally, to say, "What are you doing here?" Crystal embraces the morning cocktails and "three-star thinking" on offer from the salon boys, and has a proposition for Mateo and some alarming ideas on how to cut the wages bill to present to Joyce. Meanwhile, the Oracle (Johnny Vegas) returns in style.

Radio Times review

As Benidorm goes, this one's a classic. Hoity Joyce takes a tumble in more ways than one and is soon elbowed out by Janey - Crissy Rock returning as the Solana's original scouse manageress. Geoff parades his new Romanian girlfriend, who believes he's a millionaire, while Jacqueline hollers through singing lessons with a cocktail pianist (none other than Bobby Crush).

But the ice in the shaker is Joan Collins, back as Solana CEO Crystal Hennessy-Vass. Unlike her debut last year, she features throughout this episode, interacting with many more characters. She hits it off with Blow & Go double act Kenneth and Liam, and there's a startling pay-off with Geoff (Johnny Vegas). Only in Benidorm!

Johnny Vegas and wife expecting first baby

Johnny Vegas and his wife are expecting their first child. The funnyman, who has a son from his first marriage, announced the news via Twitter, posting a picture of the scan and photoshopping a pint of Guinness into the picture.

Radio Times review

Joyce has survived her botched facial at the hands of Kenneth and wants to know exactly what was injected into her skin. The delusional Geoff (Johnny Vegas) builds bridges with the Dykes but only makes an even bigger fool of himself - in a bizarre incident involving hot coals. Les's embittered ex-wife Gloria (Denise Black) tries to lure their son Liam back to Oldham, while Jacqueline and gloomy Glynn gatecrash a pilota ball game.

An eventful episode then, but almost mirth-free as Benidorm paddles in ever shallower waters. And Janine Duvitski looks bereft paired with Alan David in place of her comedy partner, Kenny Ireland.

Radio Times review

From the tweaked title sequence alone you'll notice there's been a major cast shake-up. Last week, we bid a poignant adios to the Garveys, and in their place there's a welcome return for Elsie Kelly as daffy Noreen (who had to miss the last series) and for Johnny Vegas, last seen five years ago as her son, Geoff, aka "the Oracle". An inveterate quiz-champ, he's in an especially obnoxious temper.

Clive's ultra-crude sister Terri also shows up and gets the hots for Mateo after he flattens her with a lemon, while Joyce demands Botox treatment from Kenneth - and lives to regret it. This cartoonish episode is almost a return to vintage form.

Johnny Vegas's favourite TV

The Benidorm and Still Open All Hours star on his property TV obsession and how he's preparing for the zombie apocalypse by watching The Walking Dead.

Campaign launched to give the late Les Dawson an OBE

Johnny Vegas is spearheading a campaign to award a posthumous OBE to Les Dawson. Supporters say it was unfair that the comedian, who died in 1993, was not honoured when the likes of Jimmy Savile were.