Comic said no to that undertaking...

Since appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, Bill Bailey says he’s been induced with bizarre requests for celebrity reality shows.

And the weirdest of the lot?  Celebrity Embalmers, where stars would get prepare bodies for funerals.

‘I get offered weird programmes all the time.’ he told the Daily Star Sunday. ‘One of them was going to be called Celebrity Embalmer. It would be about someone dying and then someone coming in to embalm them, but wait for it... it's a celebrity!’

‘You'd have someone saying, "Auntie Jean has died, which is sad... but hey, to cheer things up, here's Peter Andre to embalm her!". It's just staggering.’

The 59-year-old comic - and animal-lover who keeps a menagerie of pets in his West London home – was horrified by the idea of another programme.

He said: ‘They had an idea for a show called To Cull or Not To Cull. The premise was that I'd learn how to use a hunting rifle and then go out and find an animal that needs culling.

‘Then when I've got the animal in my sights, I'd turn to the camera and ask viewers to vote on whether or not I should kill it."

’t was mad. When they offered me that one, I said, ‘"Why would I want to do that?" They said, "It's not what people will expect!" I replied, "I'm not doing it!"’

Published: 24 Nov 2024