Josh Widdicombe s criminal activities revealed
It has taken 30 years, but Josh Widdicombe’s crimes have finally caught up with him.
The comedian has become embroiled in possibly the biggest scandal to have rocked the sleepy Dartmoor village of Ilsington.
For in a daring scam, the stand-up – at the time using the perfect alias of an eight-year-old child – snatched the first prize in the ‘Mini Beast Created from Fruit and Vegetables’ section at the 1991 Ilsington Flower Show. He was feted in the media, featuring prominently in the Mid-Devon Advertiser.
But in an earth-shattering mea culpa, Widdicombe has confessed on national television that it was all a fraud. He had not created the winning vegetable insect at all - it was all his father’s handiwork.