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Will Mellor answers your questions

Will Mellor, who stars as Ollie in our new comedy White Van Man, answers viewers' questions.

The ill-advised nature of mixing business with pleasure is the theme of tonight's White Van Man. The charming but flaky Darren attempts to pull off the feat of working with Olly (Will Mellor) on the house where he's just spent the night with the owner, Lucy - with neither Olly nor Lucy suspecting what he's doing. Emma, meanwhile, pitches one of Olly's business ideas to the errantly-haired Ian (Dexter Fletcher). It's Toast Office - a toast-themed restaurant with free champagne, "so you can toast your toast". It didn't start well, but this has been an endearingly surreal grower, mainly down to Joel Fry as Darren.

Ask Will Mellor a question about White Van Man

I don't know about you, but I'm loving the new comedy White Van Man and I think Will Mellor is brilliant as struggling handyman Ollie. So we thought we'd give you a chance to ask him a question about starring in the show.

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Will Mellor must really love Cheshire. After Hollyoaks and Two Pints of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, this is the third series he's been in that's been set there.

In this new sitcom - filmed around his hometown of Stockport - Will stars as Ollie Curry who's taking over the family handyman business.

While his father plans to spend his retirement watching daytime TV, Ollie's also inherited a hapless assistant, Darren (Joel Fry) who seems to be starring in a movie in his own head called Confessions Of An Odd Job Man.

Tonight, Ollie's first day sees him assaulted, robbed, ripped off and ridiculed and he makes some impressive enemies.

It probably won't make you laugh like an unblocked drain but it's on a par with Mellor's Two Pints Of Lager which will be back for a ninth series this year.

Will Mellor shows that he's better than Two Pints again in a sitcom set in Stockport. Not as good as Him & Her but certainly worth watching.

Will Mellor on the right road in White Van Man

Will Mellor admits he's not much of a handyman. "I'm rubbish, to be honest," laughs the Stockport-born actor.

There ought to be mileage in a comedy based around the much maligned white van man, but on early evidence this series fails to make the most of the opportunity. It's not that it's bad (we are not talking Two Pints of Lager..., a sitcom with links to both White Van's main star Will Mellor and writer Adrian Poynton), it's just that's it's not very good - or clever. Mellor plays Ollie, an amiable fool who has to put his dreams of running a restaurant on hold to run his father's handyman business, with the help of an idiotic assistant (Joel Fry).

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