'He slipped his finger into my ring'

WTF: Weekly trivia file

• ’I did a handful of jokes about cake and now people think I never go near a vegetable.’ Sarah Millican.

• Julian Clary has married his partner of 11 years, Ian Mackley – announcing the news in typical innuendo-laden style by telling his Twitter followers: ‘On Saturday he slipped his finger into my ring at last’. The couple live in 17th-century manor house in Kent once owned by Noël Coward.

• Adele has covered David Baddiel and Frank Skinner’s classic football anthem Three Lions. Sort of. The singer recorded herself signing it in an empty arena to promote her forthcoming Wembley Stadium gig:

• Johnny Vegas now has his own beer. George Wright's of Rainford has launched the Johnny Vegas Ale, which will be on offer at a beer festival in his native St Helen’s this weekend.

• John Quaintance, who’s executive producer of US sitcom Workaholics, has tweeted these images from the writers’ room, detailing comedy cliché phrases his writing staff are banned from using in their scripts. #nailedit.

As a public service, here are the two boards from the Workaholics writer's room of comedy phrases that need to be retired, started season 2. pic.twitter.com/DHZqhqU5D5
— John Quaintance (@John_Quaintance) November 18, 2016

• ’This time next year they’ll be millionaires…’ And it seemed all Del Boy and Rodders needed to do was buy their flat and wait. For a house on the London council estate where Only Fools and Horses was filmed has been sold for over £1million for the first time. The South Acton estate is being regenerated and Harlech Tower, better known as Nelson Mandela House in the sitcom, is to be demolished. They are being replaced by a mix of private and affordable housing – hence the breakthrough price. Fun fact: People Just Do Nothing was also filmed on the estate.

• Musician Henning Ohlenbusch has written a ballad to weirdo American one-liner king Emo Philips, saying he ‘focused on this image in my head of Philips’ sad, innocent facial expressions’. The result, written when the musician was asked to support the comedian, is suitable offbeat and haunting:

• Jennifer Aniston says the cast of Friends hated the I’ll Be There For You theme. ‘No one was really a big fan,’ she said on the One Show. ‘We felt it was a little ... I don’t know. Dancing in a pond? A fountain felt sort of odd. We did it because we were told to.’

• Seann Walsh says the most memorable Christmas present he’s ever received was a candle with his face on it. ‘So when it melted I got to see what I looked like when I was older,’ the new Virtually Famous team captain said. ‘It was a fair gift to myself.’

• Rob Brydon has surprised an audience at a fundraiser – by appearing on stage to reprise his Gavin & Stacey duet with Ruth Jones. Jones had organised the event for the Porthcawl lifeboat crew, of which her brother-in-law is a member, and as part of the evening reprised her role as Nessa and reminisced about Uncle Bryn, Then Rob came through the back of the venue and after some banter launched into their version of (Barry) Islands In The Stream .. ‘Everyone went mad because hardly anyone knew he was going to turn up,’ said Porthcawl RNLI press officer Ian Stroud. ‘Even those of us behind the scenes weren't 100% sure it would happen.’

• Stand-up Bennett Arron has disclosed that he got THIS knockback email: ‘Hi Bennett, thanks for holding that Christmas date for us. However the company has decided to go with a drag act and pole dancer instead.’