RONNIE CORBETT

was sitting in his big chair for his solo spot on The Two Ronnies. ‘The first school I went to was pretty soft,’ he began. ‘St Pansy’s Primary. You could have a reign of terror with a balloon on a stick.’ Huge laughs. And not unlike the story of 56-year-old Danny Denison, the self-styled ‘bad boy of lawn bowls’ who got involved in an altercation with a cage fighter at a hotel in Bournemouth and suffered a broken leg, a black eye and rib damage. Turns out that ‘bad boy’ stuff is pretty relative between sports. Or maybe he’d just left the balloon on a stick at home that day.