The episodes will be shown in the New Year.

Baby joy! - 05/08/03
Manchester comedian Peter Kay and his wife Susan are expecting their first child in January.

Peter said ’we are both really over the moon and very excited. We don’t want to know the sex - we just hope everything goes well and that the baby is healthy’.

Peter and Susan married two years ago, and he will be looking forward to taking time off his busy schedule to spend time with the new addition to the family!

No joke! - 04/04/03
It was no laughing matter for comedian Peter Kay when a thief stole his video camera and mobile phone from a theatre dressing room.

The Phoenix Nights star was playing a gig in his hometown of Bolton earlier this week. The comic fumed: "I have played 141 nights all over the country and I can’t believe that now I return to my home town I have stuff stolen. I bend over backwards to do my town proud - I love Bolton and was looking forward to playing here for that very reason. Then something like this happens."

Peter may have the last laugh as the thief was captured on closed-circuit TV.

Peter Kay gives to charity - 12/12/02
Bolton comedian is to donate the proceeds from two shows on his latest tour to charity. The comedian will hand over the cash from the January shows - at Manchester Apollo and Blackpool Opera House - to a number of worthy causes.

The award-winning star will give proceeds to the NSPCC and the Christie’s Against Cancer charity among others. He said: "Life’s too short, and it’s always good to give a bit back."

The Apollo has chosen the NSPCC as the recipient of cash from the £25-a-head January 22 show.

Kay initially announced 40 dates earlier this year but demand saw it expand to 130, all of which have now sold out.

Peter Kay - the new pin up - 19/11/02 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
It’s official: Peter Kay is more popular than David Beckham and Gareth Gates. The Bolton comic’s 2003 calendar has shifted twice as many copies as the likes of Becks, Gareth and Brad Pitt. A spokesperson fro HMV said, "It’s one of the fastest-selling calendars we’ve had in years."

Peter Kay ’takes over Caroline Aherne’s new sitcom’ - 18/11/02
According to press reports Peter Kay is to replace TV star Caroline Aherne on the new BBC sitcom she recently quit.

He will take over her writing duties for the pub-based Early Doors, which Caroline was due to make with long-term writing partner Craig Cash.

The Phoenix Nights star is also expected to appear in the new show, to be filmed next spring.

Peter’s show is a record breaker - 18/10/02
Comic Peter Kay’s autumn stand-up comedy show has broken a Manchester theatre’s box office records. Six more dates have been added to the Salford leg of the Bolton comic’s tour at The Lowry Theatre. He will appear there from December 2 until December 7, and from December 9 until December 14.