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Life as Britain’s biggest moaner is certainly adding up for Idiot Abroad star Karl Pilkington – he’s sitting on a £2.5million fortune.

Balding Karl thinks everything from holidays to fast cars, pricey booze and fancy restaurants, designer clothes and expensive watches and jewellery are all a waste of time, effort and money.

In fact, he doesn’t employ a cleaner because he’s got a Vax mop and won’t marry his long-term lover because – wait for it – that would be another drain on his resources.

But it isn’t that grumbler Karl, 42, can’t enjoy the finer things in life.

His firm Round Ed Productions had £2,464,839 in cash in its coffers in latest accounts and he’s in the process of liquidating the firm to concentrate his interests in new company Alrite Productions, which he runs with BBC telly producer partner Suzanne Whiston, 46.

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But Suzanne won’t be planning her marriage just yet – because Manchester-born Karl reckons it wouldn’t be money well-spent.

He once revealed: “I don’t know what difference it would make. You can either have a big wedding and then think: ‘We could have chucked that money at the mortgage,’ or you do it on the cheap at a register office – what’s the point of that?”

On cleaners he revealed: “I’ve got a Vax mop. I like to keep it clean. I’m house proud.”

And despite making his fortune crisscrossing the planet making Idiot Abroad – directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant - and the Moaning of Life, he doesn’t like going away because he’s “got a nice house” and likes to spend time at home.

He confessed: “Holidays? The last thing I want to do when I’m not working is get on a plane, flying about.”

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Karl – who began life in broadcasting as a producer on XFM - is also tight when it comes to clothes – preferring clobber that looks more Aldi than Armani, revealing: I’m not bothered about clothes. I don’t wear jewellery; it irritates me.”

And in a recent episode of the Moaning of Life he met two South African self-made millionaires but branded their life of fast cars and fast women a waste of cash.

Sat in a five-star Cape Town hotel, an assistant from a high-end shop tried to flog him an array of luxury goods – including a Chopard watch, pen and cuff-link set.

But shooed her away, saying he could tell the time on his mobile phone, he used pinched biros and he said he thought that shirts that needed cufflinks were a rip-off because the makers could have sewn on buttons.

The cash has come rolling in for Karl since starring in the Idiot Abroad on Sky in 2010.

It was so successful that it led to two more series, numerous lucrative voice-overs in ads for firms like Vodaphone, Sony, W H Smith and Wickes and he was commissioned for the hilarious five part Moaning of Life series on Sky.

Karl’s also written six best-selling books but it is his firms’ books that must make the most pleasant reading for his bank manager.

A spokeswoman for Karl declined to comment.

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