Alan Carr is making an autobiographical sitcom for ITV, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Also treading about the Edingburgh festival was quite interesting and judging by all the stand ups biograpghies that I've read this too is a tough nut to crack and one that can also have a huge finacial burden. It then goes onto his first forays into comedy and some really cringe-worthy gigs (including seeing Russell Brand's willy on stage! He is often self effacing and not afraid to talk about the terrible attack of anxiety he gets before shows. We meet him just as his best friend, Charlie, has been banned from hanging out with him because his parents think he’s “camp”.

If I'd known I could have lived that kind of lifestyle, I would have endured my father's stomach crunches and star jumps. He ‘studied’ drama at university, which mostly involved idling away his time with typical student apathy, went travelling for a bit, and engaged in a series of brain-numbingly tedious jobs, from packing boxes to cleaning office toilets. When I saw this, I rolled my eyes, then thought of his stand up and radio show (which I enjoy) and thought "at the very least it's got to fill 30 mins better than bloody Heat magazine". Changing Ends emerges as a sillier, warmer cross between Ladhood, Liam Williams’ own fourth-wall-breaking comedy about his youth, and Keeping Up Appearances. Some people get famous because they want their own plane, some want their own chatshow, some people do it so they can talk to women like shit.Told with warmth and wit, it follows Alan’s journey through puberty, adolescence, and finally self-discovery, all against the backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain. Autobiographies I've read in the past paint an entirely unrealistic picture of a celebrity's struggles to get where they are today.

It didn't feel as structured (more of a ramble than anything else) and I felt like there were interesting stories/moments in his life that he only devoted a page or two to taking about, whereas there were huge chunks of 'less-than-interesting' stories. Still, whenever you think it might start to dip into schmaltz, it swerves it, preferring a light, self-deprecating touch instead. Instead, he encourages smokers to think of the act of quitting, not as giving up, but as "escaping". Alanatomy is the chance for you to get beneath my skin and see the real me because, and to continue the anatomical theme if I may, this showbiz existence can sometimes feel like an autopsy - picked at, probed and scrutinized with every inch of your body held up for analysis, but unlike an actual autopsy, you are very much alive.I also found myself snorting and sniggering at the book whilst in the dentist's waiting room and people looking at me oddly probably wondering what I was laughing at. The book laments on his schooldays - he was picked last for the football team when the other students found out his lack of talent and his father forcing him to refuse to communicate with a friend because he was apparently "gaying him up". Full of stories and gossip about celebrities, my favourite anecdotes being meeting Grace Jones, and Alan and Bradley Walsh knocking on Lady Gaga’s dressing room door! In 2020, it was estimated that Allen Carr's Easyway method had helped more than 50 million people worldwide.

There are six of us in this photo studio, including Carr’s manager, makeup, wardrobe and a publicist from ITV. In 2021, Allen Carr's Easyway assisted the World Health Organisation's year-long global campaign for World No Tobacco Day 2021. He and Justin Lee Collins co-hosted The Friday Night Project from series two in 2006 until it was cancelled after the end of series eight in February 2009.

Graham is embarrassed by his un-sporty son – “Everything this family has is down to sport,” he says, though it looks as if the family line might stop with his eldest – and Ange won’t let her son Charlie play with Alan any more. Guests from past series include: Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Vin Diesel, Adele, Grace Jones, Naomi Campbell, Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Robin Williams, David Walliams, Mariah Carey, Russell Brand, Samuel L Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Robbie Williams, Bette Midler, Sharon Osbourne, One Direction, Gok Wan and Miranda Hart. He charts his 'rise' in the world of comedy with hilarious anecdotes about his private life and career that make no attempt to hide his anxiety and fear and have you appreciating how cut throat it is to succeed as a comic. Recounting Carr's sexual awakenings, his daily battle with bullies and navigating the highs and lows of fourth division football, Changing Ends is "about school and family, Kevin Keegan and George Michael, and figuring out who you are when your family are Match Of The Day and you're a bit Miss Marple".

And he hasn't half had some funny moments in his life, some strage situations, so it isn't hard to see why he got into the comedy game. View image in fullscreen Carr with actor Oliver Savell, who plays the comedian as a boy in the sitcom Changing Ends. It just makes me happy listning to him, a normal person that don't do drama or hurt others with his book. A great read (if you share Alan's sense of humour) but it's not a complete story or in any way serious - just good fun. Carr went to Weston Favell Upper School in Northampton and graduated from Middlesex University with a 2:1 BA (Hons) degree in Drama and Theatre Studies.Whereas it had come in the night and left the other boys with chiselled, stubbly chins and deep masculine voices, I'd been left with a huge pair of knockers and the voice of a pensioner. But “I know now that I’m not [an alcoholic] and seeing [alcoholism] first-hand, I realise I was nowhere near becoming one. Carr himself appears as a sort of ghost of Christmas yet to come, albeit a more cheerful one, dropping in to scenes to narrate for a while, or crack jokes about the star he would become.