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on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Richard Madeley said comedian David Walliams once came to his house with a very expensive umbrella. ‘He propped it in the hall where there were candles burning. Our children knocked it over and it caught fire. I had to buy him another one and it was about £450.’ A strange tale. Why burn candles in his hall where his ‘children’ – Jack, now 31, and Chloe, 30 – could knock them over?