WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'An artist moaning about the critics is like a sailor moaning about the waves. They're there. Deal with them, or don't get on the boat.' Ricky Gervais.

• Meanwhile the Derek star has told how a fan ambushed him for a photo... while he was taking a pee in a public toilet. He said: 'I went to see a title fight with Joe Calzaghe in New York, I went to the loo and this guy is like, "Hey man, can I have a picture?" Arm straight round me, doing a selfie while I'm in the middle of doing a wee... All I could think was, "How wide-angled was that lens? What did he get in?".'

•Stay in one Edinburgh hotel and you could find yourself unwittingly sharing a room with a comedian – or at least their name in giant letters. The Stay hotel and hostel, next to the Three Sisters on Cowgate, has looked to the posters that covert the city come Fringe time – to the annoyance of some residents – to inspire their bedroom designs, with comedians' names, shows, review quotes and even promoters' names emblazoned on their wardrobes. Stand-up Dan Mitchell said it was 'a weird turn of events' that his name was on one closet, while on the hotel's website you can also glimpse blurbs for Jason Byrne, Lily Savage and Eddie Izzard in a 'best of the fest' show, Alistair Barrie, and Peacock and Gamble's Don't Want To Be On Telly Anyway show.

• Modern Family star Sofia Vergara has just bought a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom home in Beverly Hills for $10.6million. Look inside

• Gotta love Harry Enfield's IMDB picture...

• Lee Mack is trying to lay his hands on the sign from the Blackburn pub he grew up in. His parents ran the old Centurion pub, which was demolished after an arson attack in 2006, and he said: 'There was an old sign on the road at the entrance to the pub and I would love to trace it. If anyone knows where it is I would really like to buy it from them.' The site has been a wasteland since the fire, but is set to have 14 homes built on it.

• Fun fact: French and Saunders were almost called Kitsch'n'Tiles before Alexei Sayle talked them out of it.

• Omid Djalili is more than proud to have pulled off a footballing feat that even Lionel Messi couldn't… as you can tell from his reaction on The One Show:

'I have made history,' he told Chortle. 'We will look back on this is as the day the machines decided we were a threat, and started to fight back.'

• Tina Fey is the face of Garnier's new skincare range.

• Lookalike corner: David Trent and Indian Prime Ministerial hopeful Amit Shah.

• Will Arnett has reportedly filed for divorce from Amy Poehler, 18 months after they split, requesting joint custody of their two sons, Archie and Abe. Poehler has been dating fellow comedian Nick Kroll since May 2013.

• Ronnie Corbett was asked to be one of the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He tells Graham Norton on tonight's BBC One show: 'Stanley Kubrick saw me doing a little spot on Sunday Night At The Palladium and said, "He would be ideal for one of my apes." I turned it down!' He also reveals he has a habit of getting locked in toilets. 'I have been trapped in some posh toilets including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St Paul's Covent Garden I got locked in the loo.  I had to scream and shout and eventually someone threw a screwdriver over the door.'

• ‘Women say they find spontaneity sexy. Apparently that does not extend to nose bleeds’ Stephen Merchant.

•Tweets of the week
Sanjeev Kohli (@govindajeggy): Thinking of writing my own Scandi drama. Haven't worked out the nuts & bolts yet but the hero will be called Gü Ramekin
James Martin (@ Pundamentalism ): My girlfriend looks a million dollars this morning. In as much as I don't have a million dollars either.
Nick Doody (@ NickDoody ): The phone rang. "Come quickly. I have a cure for your clumsiness." Naturally I dropped everything

Published: 18 Apr 2014