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Right seems interested in your leg, Heather.

Ross Noble's dog when I used to live with them,

used to love chewing it.

And Ross eventually had to say,

God, I hope he doesn't do that to people with two legs.

This week on Walking the Dog, I went out with comic Adam Hills and my dog Raymond for a stroll

in London's Regents Park.

You probably know Adam best from his incredibly popular Channel 4 show The Last Leg,

and he's also a brilliant comic, but that's not all. He even used to be a tennis coach.

The man's basically a rom-com hero. So we chatted about his childhood in

Australia and how he got started in comedy and also the way Billy Connolly kept

cropping up in his life as a sort of comedy fairy godfather. I felt like I'd got to

know Adam quite well even before our walk because I just read his book which is

called Best Foot Forward and it's a brilliant account of his life. There are some

great anecdotes involving Whoopi Goldberg

and the Royal Family.

And he also talks about how being born without a foot

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