Bo Selecta star Leigh Francis has been responding to reports over Christmas that Craig David had criticised him for being a "one-trick pony" and admitted that he found Leigh's fake-head depiction of him hard to cope with. I kind of feel sorry for him, actually. But there you go.
Anyway, Francis told The Daily Record: "Craig David was slagging me off in the press over Christmas. It was bizarre, because he gave me free publicity every time he did it. They didn't even use a picture of him, they used a picture of me in a mask. So I thought 'everytime you talk about me being rubbish then I'm going to do you'. He always harps on about 'proper' comedians like Ricky Gervais. He said I was damaging what he did. But I didn't write his songs, did I? What I was doing was the kid from the film Kes with Craig David's name and a daft voice. That's all".
He continued: "I think 'If you keep saying bad things about me, then I'll say what I think about you'. I never said anything bad about him before. I actually liked him. The weird thing about it all is now we've stopped making Bo Selecta, he still harps on about it".