Thank you.

It's nice to be on.

Were often talking about TV when you're here.

But now we're talking about your autobiography.

Little me literally is little old me on.

This is this is done quite differently.

This is your life in A to Zed four.

That's right.

That's right.

So I've written this autobiography, but I've done it as an 80 said so Beers for bald because I lost my hair when I was six on is for eating.

It's a kind of love letter to food and jeez, for Gay and Jay's for Jewish.

And so it is my store wave.

Yeah, is my story, but I thought because I thought otherwise, I didn't want to do an autobiography where you start off.

I was born in blah, blah, blah because I thought no one cares about that.

So this way I can just kind of get to the interesting is that?

That's what I wanna do is tell him left bythe about the childhood.

But because I read the book and actually I found the childhood stuff really interesting, and it's kind of what shapes us.

Yeah, yeah, well, I lost.

I lost my hair when I was six, it'll just fell out on DSO in a weird kind of way.

I was sort of like famous as a kid on.

Everybody in my town knew me.

I kind of couldn't get away with anything.

So I thought about years old.

But did it just literally fall out or did you not to fall out in It's sort of stages?

Yeah.

It fell out over the space of two or three months across one summer.

I would wake up every morning and there would be strands of hair on my pillow, but because I was kind of known already.

Oh, that's the kid with no hair.

I thought I would want to do something with this attention, you know?

And that's what made me become a performer.

Really, But wasn't quite difficult for you first.

Didn't you even attempt to wear a wig?

You wear a wig?

Yeah.

So when I was when I waas 11 I've been bored for excuse me five years, and then I was getting ready to go to secondary school on my parents thought, maybe just goes hard enough.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So they thought maybe it'll help me fit in if I wear a wig.

So I actually got a wig on the national health.

And what was that week like?

It wasn't great because they didn't make kids wigs on the national health.

So I had a woman's wig.

It was huge.

It was, like, bigger than my head on.

And I had one term left at primary school, so I went in on the first day of the last term.

Toe wear.

This wig is kind of practice on.

One of the older boys just ran past me, ripped off my head.

And But that was the best thing anyone could have done, really.

But baldness run in my family.

I didn't realize that my own father wore a wig on.

We're not yet on when I was about 10 or 11 1 morning, before going to Hebrew classes on a Sunday, he summoned me into the bathroom, shut the door and said, Look, I've got something to tell you.

And then he started to peel back his wig and set up a light.

I'm like you.

I've got no hair, but don't tell anyone.

And then I went into Hebrew classes.

I went, Guess what?

My dad, Everyone went yet way.

Why you lost your hair?

Well, we don't know.

I mean, there's theory.

So two years earlier, when I was four, I was knocked down by a car on holiday in Portugal on people always thought, Oh, it's the shock that made my hair fall out.

But there's some other medical theories.

They're all in the book, Little baby, about the kid that ran past and Richard.

Now, now we go.

Oh, my God, that's really bullying.

Did you sort of see it?

Is that?

Yeah, I think I did.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it was.

I think it was tough, you know, I was I was one of those kids that was marked out.

Yeah, but that forced me out of myself to develop a quick wit, you know, So sometimes little kids would come up to me and go.

You got no hair, and I'd go year.

Oh, my God, you're right.

It made me kind of come up with a game.

You talked about him eating and things and comfort eating.

And you actually have taken to a slimming club?

Yeah, when I was interned Teen You wouldn't know it to look at me now.

When I was 13 I was a bit overweight on DSO.

I was taken to Weight Watchers by my mom.

It was decided something needed to be done.

And I think, by the way, I need to go back.

Actually, on Dhe.

I went there on Dhe course years later in Little Britain.

We had a slamming doors.

Andi.

The thing was, the thing I was remembered when I was 13 was that there was a woman there that the beginning of every week would go have a new member way.

Put that into the way spell in.

Oh, yeah, you.

And also the other thing was, it was they were always trying.

They would say, Say, you know, you can You can make your own slimming version of a shepherd's pie.

But the Weight Watchers version of the shepherd's pie very slim.

And so she was really trying to sell us all the Weight Watchers product.

So we put that into into little Britain with Marjorie.

You've just done that, everybody.

There's such a great warmth.

Theo, make a little suggestion about that.

There are some characters that you probably wouldn't do now.

Yeah, I mean, little Britain is about 15 16 years old.

Now, if you think of that yeah, yeah, we're older.

Way algo old Andi.

I think you would do things differently now.

I don't think you do.

A funny There was a character who was a rubbish transvestite.

You know who said I'm a lady?

Yeah, and she was fun at the time, but I think we look at the transgender community differently now.

I think I think it would be very hard to do that now.

I think it would be hard to play characters of other races now.

And even Marjorie, you know, people talk about that now is in terms of fat shaming.

So we would we would definitely approach it very different, very hard, I think.

Now I think that was always the things people say.

Oh, you and David gonna bring back little Britain.

But I think if you brought it back the way we did it, then you would upset a lot of people.