Alan Carr was dressed as Hercule Poirot when he found out his beloved dog had died.
Alan Carr reveals ‘surreal’ circumstances finding out his dog had died
The 48-year-old comedian and his ex-partner Paul Drayton were left heartbroken when their Irish red setter Bev died in May 2022, and now he’s opened up about the “surreal” circumstances around the tragedy.
He told Paloma Faith on the first episode of her ‘Mad, Sad and Bad’ podcast: “It was a really shit time, marriage falling apart and then the first gift that [ex-husband] Paul gave me was the dog and then the dog dies. It was more symbolism than anything.
“When she died, it was the first day of an Agatha Christie documentary I was doing. I was working and Paul said, ‘Bev is going, she’s going now’ and then she died and then I got food poisoning on the same day.
“I was dressed as Poirot when I heard she died, it was the most surreal thing ever. I was grieving and then I nearly s*** myself with the food poisoning.”
He admitted his own mother thought his grief had cause the unfortunate reaction.
He recalled: “I said to my mum, I said, ‘I think I’ve s*** myself’. She went, ‘Oh, people grieve in different ways’. I said, ‘No, it’s the food poisoning’.
“My mum thought I was so upset I’d s*** myself. But the thing is, I wouldn’t mind if I’d s*** myself in my clothes, but I was in the Poirot outfit that [actor] David Suchet had donated to the museum. But I didn’t do it. Thank God.”
Alan can find humour in sadness, which helped inspire his latest stand-up comedy tour during a “miserable time” in his life.
He said: “The thing is, with my last stand-up tour, if you read it on paper you’d go, ‘Oh my god, that…
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