Covid-19 has left comic Johnny Vegas so hard-up he asked his family for cash for his 50th last month. The star, who is in the latest series of Taskmaster on Channel 4, says the pandemic means he can't make any stand-up cash.
He said: "People think if you're on TV you're loaded. I'm not. All the stand-up has been postponed. "I don't want to play to a quarter-full room.
And I certainly don't want to endanger anybody by trying to get back to work too quickly – says someone who hasn't written his show yet!" Instead Johnny has been busy using his birthday cash to build an outhouse for his pottery kiln.
And he spent lockdown delivering meals to the elderly in his hometown of St Helen's, Lancs. He said: "If work kicks in safely, great.