A comedian's name has been painted multiple times along a fence in a seemingly random attack. The words Les Dennis have been painted in white along the fence of a development in the West Midlands.
As well as the name of the 90s comedian, Family Fortunes host and Celebrity Big Brother runner up, someone also painted the name of Les Dawson - another comedian who once hosted Blankety Blank.
It's not the first time Les Dennis graffiti has appeared in England, reports BirminghamLive. In 2018 Les Dennis had to deny he was responsible for his name being painted on the walls of Norwich.
At the time, he said: "It's kind of crazy. I'm not condoning it at all. Whoever it is who is doing this - I'm saying you shouldn't be graffitiing public or private spaces.
"I promise it wasn't me. You've got my word for it, that's all I can give."
Phil Banting, who spotted the latest attack, said: "I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation."
In 2020, Les Dennis became the unexpected star of Twitter after a prankster falsely accused him of swearing at a two-year-old boy.
The bizarre trend was triggered after the former Coronation Street actor responded to a man who jokingly claimed: “Met @LesDennis today in the Brewers Fayre in Warrington. What a disappointment!!!! Refused to have a picture with me and swore at my 2 year old son. #Disappointed.”
Dennis responded: “No you didn’t. I am at home and have been all day. Don’t lie.”
The denial unwittingly sparked a host of comedic copycat tweets, with others imagining unlikely scenarios in which they had met the actor.
Call The Midwife actor Stephen McGann wrote: “Looked through my telescope in the garden last night. I saw Les Dennis doing a spacewalk in orbit, trying to divert an asteroid so it would collide with Earth. Very disappointed.”
EastEnders’ Nitin Ganatra responded: “I was in Tescos today in Isle of Wight….Where Les Dennis lives…In the world food section… that’s where lives. He refused to show me where to find cheap chickpea tins.”
Many others simply took the opportunity to say how much they had enjoyed their real-life encounters with Dennis.
Journalist and presenter Samira Ahmed tweeted: “I saw @LesDennis on stage and told him he was amazing. Next thing he was acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company.”
“We found him absolutely charming when he visited Nottingham,” wrote Sue Jennings.
Dennis appeared taken aback by the furore, eventually tweeting: “All the I met Les Dennis posts are making me laugh out loud.
“You’re all making me see that Twitter can be a great place despite the odd idiot. Thank you all.”
More recently Les Dennis appeared in the Christmas special of Death in Paradise and has joined the West End run of Only Fools and Horses.
