Karl Pilkington fans, brace yourselves.

The bald messiah has said he will ‘never’ be acting again, particularly not alongside Ricky Gervais, no matter how much people want him to.

Not that he admits that he’s ever done any acting in his life. To him, the Channel 4 wigmaker is responsible for whatever it was he did on the set of Derek.


Thankfully this doesn’t mean he’ll stop getting up-close-and-personal with animals and indigenous tribes for various TV shows.

Karl makes a friend on An Idiot Abroad 2: The Bucket List (Picture: Freddie Claire / Sky1)

But fans of The Pilk, who rose to fame after featuring on Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s podcasts, will be bitterly disappointed to hear he has no plans to do more of the hilarious podcast episodes either.



Asked if he’d consider reading any more Monkey News, he said: ‘No. It was of a time. It would be like Brother Beyond bringing a new album out.’

Well you know it’s funny you should say that, Karl, because….

No, our mistake. Brother Beyond really aren’t coming back.

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Brother Beyond ain’t no Take That

And when asked if Derek marks his last acting role, he made it clear his acting career is dead on arrival.

He said: ‘I know they say you should never say never, but I think in this case I can say never as no one is going to be calling me after that performance.

‘It wasn’t acting. It was just me in a wig. Shocking.’

That zaps any dizzy feelings of hopeful anticipation we had about him making a cameo in Gervais’ upcoming The Office spin-off movie On The Road.

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