Adrian Edmondson was always going to be amazing on Let’s Dance For Comic Relief.

The man we all know and love as Bottom’s sidekick Eddie took to the stage tonight and dance the ‘Dying Swan’. He was dressed in a beautiful white tutu, which showed his rather rotund frame to perfection.

The look of shock and fake emotion on his face throughout only served to make us laugh even more, though we have to admit, he was a lot more graceful than we ever would have given him credit for.

When Adrian, the swan, was close to death at the end, Bottom star Rik Mayall emerged and starting beating him with a frying pan in traditional comedy style. It was the performance of the night!

After the dance judge John Bishop said:

The poise, the grace, the elegance, it was like seeing a real swan – albeit a bald swan with glasses but a real swan! Natalie Portman in that film Black Swan, she got an Oscar for that…..you made her look like Ann Widdecome…you nailed it!

Jo Brand added:

Really really moving. Ade that nearly turned me into a proper woman!

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Comedic actor Adrian Edmondson has admitted that he isn’t out to make people laugh on this years series of Hell’s Kitchen.

Adrian said: “I am not going on as a joker, I aim to have fun, I am kind of treating it quite lightly.”

He went on: “I don’t know if that’s the right way to do it, but this is my natural way and I don’t know what’s gonna happen if I get told off like a small child because I haven’t been told off like a small child since I was one. If they do that, if [host Marco Pierre White] gets a bit cross I don’t know, I don’t know how I will react until it happens.”

The 52-year-old comic actor added that he is a good cook but has gotten bored with the same dishes.

He said: “I am not brilliant. I am an adequate cook. I can cook a very good Sunday lunch, I do Christmas dinner, those are my two biggies but I am basically bored.

“One of the reasons for coming [on Hell's Kitchen] was thinking that I might actually get my mojo back about cooking, because I really get tediously bored in the kitchen. Once you’ve got your five dishes that you do, it’s very hard to get out of it isn’t it, very hard to think, ‘why don’t I use this in a different way?’”

Hell’s Kitchen starts on ITV1 on Easter Monday.

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Marco Pierre White is back in the kitchen as a group of unsuspecting celebrities prepare to face a journey into hell as they attempt to feed a restaurant packed full of discerning diners each night.

The celebrities will leave their star status firmly at the kitchen door as Marco puts them to the ultimate test. They will learn how to cook a menu of classic dishes inspired by food Marco likes to eat and will have to live up to his exacting standards.

Claudia Winkleman will host the live show nightly from the Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in East London when it returns for its fourth series on Monday April 13.

The celebrities taking part in the show are: TV presenter Anthea Turner; model Danielle Bux; singer Ms Dynamite; actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson; former Liverpool goalie Bruce Grobbelaar; Entrepreneur Grant Bovey; actor Jody Latham and actress Linda Evans.

Marco, dubbed the godfather of British cuisine, will attempt to work his magic on the rookie chefs as they have just two weeks to learn how to dish up a feast fit for showbiz royalty.

He will push them to their limits to achieve perfection and crank up the heat to ensure every diner is fed.

This time there will be no room for error as Marco will have the power to sack the celebrities who he thinks aren’t up to the job. When it comes to choosing the series winner, the power will be back in the hands of the viewers who will vote for their favourite.

And, for the first time on Hell’s Kitchen, each night the two trainee chefs who have failed to impress Marco will feel the heat as he banishes them into the restaurant to wait on tables. Each guest waiter will be responsible for serving half the restaurant under the direction of maitre d’ Nick Munier.

They will have to take all orders and deliver food to the tables, plus they will be responsible for dishing out the desserts from the trolley.

It’s every cook for themselves as they work in just one team to impress both Marco and the customers.

And with just one kitchen there will be nowhere to hide for the rookie chefs.

Plus Marco will be inviting celebrity chefs including his friends Jean Christophe Novelli and Mario Batali to Hell’s Kitchen where they will put the trainees through their paces in a set of unique challenges.

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