Carr’s embalmy career move

TV comic Alan Carr has confessed he once fancied becoming an embalmer.

Asked what he would have chosen if he hadn’t gone into TV, the Chatty Man host replied: “Something to do with death - pathologist, or maybe an embalmer.”

Before he found fame Carr, 41, did jobs including factory sweeping and shampoo packer, which is partly why he’s hosting Channel 4 game show I Don’t Like Mondays. Contestants compete to win a year off work with their wages paid in full, but must quit their job on the show.

He said: “I had the worst jobs going. So I would have been a regular on I Don’t Like Mondays”.