David Walliams makes savage dig at Simon Cowell after Britain's Got Talent axe

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00:00We've got another question from Jasper. He's got a question.

00:04My question to David is,

00:07are any of the characters in your books based on real people?

00:14That's a great question. That is a good question.

00:16Well, whenever I'm trying to think of an evil villain,

00:18I always think, what would Simon Cowell do?

00:23Yes, they are.

00:25There's a character of Bert in Ratburger, who's the villain,

00:28and he was actually inspired by a Little Britain contestant

00:32because this guy came on and his name was Cockroach Ken

00:36and he started eating live cockroaches and he got buzzed off.

00:40Do you mean Britain's Got Talent, not Little Britain?

00:42Oh, sorry.

00:43I don't remember the Little Britain episode.

00:45Little Britain's Got Talent, I don't remember.

00:48Only in show with Britain in the title.