Street cred! You Joshing, mate?

EARLY on Who Do You Think You Are? Josh Widdicombe said: “Oh no, all my street cred’s gone.”

Don’t worry, mate, you never had any to begin with.

This was a hell of an episode as the alleged comedian realised how “uber posh” he was.

One relative was in the Barings Bank clan; another, the Earl Of Holland, was high up in the court of King Charles I. His job was to wipe the royal arse, presumably when the other courtiers weren’t kissing it.

We knew he wouldn’t have been the court jester… we’ve seen Josh’s act.

It wasn’t over. Josh’s 13-times greatgrandad, Sir Francis Knollys, was Elizabeth I’s favourite toady, sorry, courtier.

His daughter

Lettice was a lady-inwaiting, but the trollop had a fling with Robert Dudley, the earl who was wooing Good Queen Bess.

“You’re telling me my 12-times great-grandmother was in a love triangle with Queen Elizabeth I?” said an almost animated Josh.

Yes, but there was more.

Lettice’s mum Catherine was the Queen’s cousin (daughter of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne, Henry VIII’s second wife).

Which explains why Lettice wasn’t horse-whipped for copping off with Dudders.

Mary was also the King’s mistress, so there was a strong chance Henry was Witless-Chump’s direct ancestor.

Wolf Hall had nothing on this! Further up his highfaluting family tree, Josh was very nearly impressed to discover his 23-times great-grandad was Edward I (“the Hammer of the Scots”). Then came some French royals… before long we’d have reached the original Cnut.

Yet no-one asked the obvious question – where did Danny Dyer fit into this? And who’s more royal, Dyer or Josh? As Harry Hill knows, there’s only one way to find out… FIGHT!

Winner to take on Charlie. Loser to lose their head, just like the poor old arse-wiper did.

The Beeb couldn’t do dimwit Charlotte Crosby. She hasn’t got a family tree, more a cabbage patch.