Frank Skinner has branded all single women over 30 as "rough as arseholes".

And he claimed that "very, very bright women don't actually exist".

The comic - who is 44 and single - made his controversial comments in an interview with Heat magazine to promote his autobiography.

Asked why he mainly went out with younger women, Skinner said: "The thing is that there aren't many good older properties on the market. All the good ones have been snapped up by the time they are 25.

"There are single women in the 30s knocking around, but they are all as rough as arseholes."

The comic said that Jordan was his ideal woman because "she's very beautiful and she's taken all the feminine graphic equaliser switches and switched them up to ten".