Who shot Simon Cowell?

The duo had viewers gripped in 2016 with their weekly skits Who Shot Simon Cowell? – where the music mogul is found dead at his own birthday party – and The Missing Crown Jewels, starring Joanna Lumley.

The pair were inspired by other entertainment legends. Ant says: “We were a big fan of The Two Ronnies and they used to do a weekly serial.

“I remember fondly The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town.

“We wanted to do something like that. We chatted to the team about doing a whodunit and the idea of shooting someone was brought up, and who better for that than Simon Cowell?”

Dec says: “We took inspiration from Who Shot JR? and we thought, who’s the most JR-like person around? We phoned Simon and told him about it and he asked if he’d get to be in it. ”We said, ‘Yes, and best of all, the whole thing is about you’, so he said, ‘I love it, it’s a great idea, I’m in’.”