Other casts have included Taxi star Judd Hirsch, George Wendt from Cheers, Jack Dee, Tim Healy and Frank Skinner.

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Guests on the show were to have been Sir David Attenborough, comedian Frank Skinner, US teen singer Miley Cyrus and band The Killers.

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On ITV1's Frank Skinner Show last week, Dreyfuss even joked that the show - due to open at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 9 November - was not ready for the public yet.

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The comedian Frank Skinner, who used to be a heavy drinker before giving up, described in a newspaper column how he would to sit around with friends and laugh at their drunken exploits.

BBC: Magazine

The annual accolade - originally known as the Perrier - is now in its 32nd year and has previously been won by comedians such as Lee Evans, Steve Coogan, Frank Skinner and Sean Hughes.

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The figures suggest that men who become fathers in their 50s and 60s, such as Rod Stewart (66), Sir Paul McCartney (61), Clint Eastwood (66), Frank Skinner (55) and Gordon Brown (55), are still relatively uncommon.

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Not only has the 21-year-old from Kidwelly, been doing interviews, such as one for M magazine in which she tells of her love for teddy-bears, but she also appeared on An Audience with Lulu, backing up the ever-young Scots songbird alongside a frock-wearing Frank Skinner.

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Frank Tickner (10th in 31:39), Michael Skinner (20th, 31:50), and Lee Merrien (22nd: 31:55) scored the other points for Britain.

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