Matt Lucas

Little Britain stars front Nationwide adverts

David Walliams and Matt Lucas are to star in a series of Nationwide adverts. Characters including Vicky Polland and Lou and Andy are to appear in campaign, also featuring Fabio Capello and England players.

Matt Lucas and David Walliams film ad with England team

Matt Lucas and David Walliams are shooting a TV advert with the England team and manager Fabio Capello today.

Grieving Matt Lucas sells his flat

TV funnyman Matt Lucas is selling his £1.5million home - because he is "haunted" by memories of his tragic former husband.

Matt Lucas: My three years of hell

Little Britain star Matt Lucas has broken his silence on the death of ex-husband Kevin McGee and told of the hell he has endured.

Lucas quits Shooting Stars quiz

Little Britain star Matt Lucas has said he will not be appearing in the new series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's BBC show Shooting Stars.

In round two, more jokers try to outwit each other: zany stand-up Josie Long, comic writer Robert Popper and - the most impudent by far - actor David Schneider. Success will be rewarded with a "Lucas" - the newest, most arbitrary award around, named after jovial host Matt Lucas. Tonight he's after nominations for the most incomprehensible British accent, least practical pet and best war. That's if his guests can get a gag in edgeways: Lucas can't help jumping in with rib-tickling anecdotes, while selecting winners even more random than his categories. Not that we're complaining; this knocks the socks off the average, smug awards do.

Matt Lucas (Little Britain, Shooting Stars) with a new panel game. It's an awards show, the Lucases being awarded for the best, worst, ugliest, scariest, etc. Tonight's guests, comedian Katy Brand, actor and writer James Corden (Gavin & Stacey) and TV writer Graham Linehan (the immortal Father Ted, the sublime Black Books and the underrated The IT Crowd) nominate contenders then hand out Lucases for The Lamest Excuse of All Time, Most Pointless Member of the Royal Family and Greatest Song By a Musical Artist Who Is Otherwise Rubbish.

Matt Lucas slims down on doctor's orders

Eight months after he was ordered by doctors to go on a drastic diet, comedian Matt Lucas is cutting a dramatically thinner figure these days.

Matt Lucas hosts And the Winner is...

Have you won an award - a BAFTON or a Golden Globo perhaps? Well you may as well just throw it in the bin as it is now useless. The only award worth getting from now on will be a Lucas award (see above).