Peter Kay has admitted that his fame still takes him by surprise - joking that he feared he'd 'have to be dead' to make the headlines.
Speaking in a rare co-hosting interview on Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 show, the Bolton-born comic shared his shock at how well his tour announcement was received.
He told Zoe and listeners: "I could not get over... I was lying in bed with Susan [his wife] on Monday night because I had a show, a practice, and Huw Edwards was on the news with a picture of me behind him. He was doing the Queen's funeral and he's talking about me!
