Josh Widdicombe
Winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year title in 2010 and finalist in So You Think You're Funny? 2008, a few months after he started stand-up.
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Josh Widdicombe moves into Noel Edmonds' old house
'It isn’t in Crinkley Bottom!'
Josh Widdicombe has moved into Noel Edmonds’ old house.
But he’s quick to joke that it’s not the fake manor house from the presenter’s 1990s TV show Noel Edmonds' House Party.
Speaking on the Parenting Hell podcast that he co-hosts with Rob Beckett, Widdicombe said: ‘Just to be clear, it isn’t in Crinkley Bottom – it isn’t the house we used to see on Saturday nights on the TV.’
But he does confirm that there’s more than a hint of Mr Blobby about the place, admitting: ‘All of the wallpaper is pink and yellow, strangely…’
And Beckett teased him about living in a house ‘that Noel Edmonds has had sex in… and he’s wanked in there’.
In 2011, the farmhouse was the result of a legal battle when his former friend, builder Ulrik Lawson, claimed he had not been paid for work he had done on the house, then worth £1.3million. The case was brought after Edmonds had sued Lawson over the collapse of a separate property deal – but the TV star lost both cases.
Widdicombe relocated from East London to Exeter in Devon, near where he grew up, in the summer – but only now revealed the move by releasing conversations he had with Beckett at the time on their podcast.
He said he loved London but thought it would be better for his children – seven-year-old daughter Pearl and four-year-old son Cassius – to have more space.
Published: 18 Sep 2025
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Products
Book (2021)
Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life y Josh Widdicombe
DVD (2016)
Josh Widdicombe: What Do I Do Now?
DVD (2013)
Josh Widdicombe Live
DVD (2013)
Channel 4 Comedy Gala 2013
Past Shows
Edinburgh Fringe 2012
Comedy Gala 2012: In Aid of Waverley Care
Josh Widdicombe: Further Adventures Of
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