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Controversial comedian Jim Davidson is returning to Gloucestershire this month for a sell-out show as part of a national tour.

But he is not back in Cheltenham, where he once threatened to punch a Gloucestershire Echo reporter.

Instead, he is coming to The Roses in Tewkesbury with his show: Jim Davidson: The People Fight Back.

It’s billed as being for people who are fed up with “this PC world we now find ourselves in” and is described as “brand new and outrageous” as Davidson "tells it like it is.”

According to the billing at The Roses he is “the people’s favourite and one of Britain’s greatest ever comedians” and “enough is enough, it’s time to fight back”

(Image: South Wales Evening Post)

It was back in 2013 that Davidson’s path crossed with the Echo, part of Gloucestershire Live.

On tour across the country, he threatened to punch a Gloucestershire Echo reporter, and called the same reporter the c-word during his show.

It followed an interview the Echo had done with him before his performance, which the comic took exception to.

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Davidson is at The Roses on Friday, January 25 and he clearly has a lot of fans in the area.

The show, which begins at 7.30pm, has sold out - so if you haven't got tickets, you've left it too late.

Davidson, a former host of the Generation Game and Big Break on BBC, has an OBE for his services to charity.

He has been criticised for telling jokes that some consider racist and sexist.

As part of a tour, Davidson is returning to Cornwall’s Redruth Regal Theatre, a venue he has previously been rude about.

A Twitter spat between Cornwall Live and the former host of The Generation Game made national headlines in November when they reported that people were asking the venue – the Regal Theatre in Redruth – not to host the comedian, who was referred to as a “bigot”.heating or hot water.”

He then rang Cornwall Live to say he was cancelling the near sold-out show, before changing his mind and dubbing a reporter an “****hole” for ever believing he would.

Davidson is due to return to Cornwall in November.

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