Shropshire comedy king Greg Davies brought the laughs at a chaotic Christmas raffle draw to help support his home town swimming pool.
The Inbetweeners star was at Wem Swimming and Lifestyle Centre, the place where he used to go swimming as a boy, to draw the names out of the bucket.
He was only due to pull out the first three names, but with 70 prizes up for grabs, The Taskmaster proved he was up to the challenge and stayed for nearly an hour to complete the draw.
The Inbetweeners star was at Wem Swimming and Lifestyle Centre, the place where he used to go swimming as a boy, to draw the names out of the bucket.
He was only due to pull out the first three names, but with 70 prizes up for grabs, The Taskmaster proved he was up to the challenge and stayed for nearly an hour to complete the draw.
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00:00 old-fashioned shaving set. I'm laughing because I've already looked at the name of the winner.
00:07 I'm sure the old-fashioned men's shaving set will be appreciated by Sue Cornish.
00:14 [laughter]
00:18 By the way, I don't know if he does vegetarian items or not, but it's the Wem Butchers.
00:25 It's a voucher. Well, he hasn't said.
00:30 So, some mystery meat.
00:35 Might be. Might be some sausages. We don't know.
00:41 I love that he hasn't specified. Oh, it doesn't even matter. Just Pat. Pat has won some mystery meat.
00:48 [laughter]
00:51 Pat! Well done, Pat.
00:56 ...shop in the Wem High Street called PR Curios. He's kindly donated a £20 voucher.
01:05 So, same again. If you buy something for £60, you've got £20 off.
01:11 Kay Taylor. Kay Taylor! Kay Taylor! Kay Taylor!
01:18 Yep. Staying here for the rest of my life.
01:24 ...café and voucher entitles you to two homemade scones, jam and croffle, cottage cream and tea for two.
01:34 Lovely. Rachel Fitton.
01:39 [cheering]
01:47 As I was saying to you before, when I was a kid, I was a very weedy, asthmatic child.
01:57 And I was awful at all sports. And pretty much awful academically, to be honest.
02:04 But I was quite good at one thing as a child, and it was swimming.
02:09 For some reason, it didn't affect my asthma and I could swim well.
02:13 And the guy who... Bob and Linda Larvey used to run this place.
02:18 And Bob saw that... He noticed that I could swim alright.
02:22 I was faster than most. So he offered to train me.
02:26 So I used to come here every week. Bob would train me for nothing and I ended up...
02:31 I mean, I didn't have a glorious career, let's be honest.
02:34 But I did swim for the county a couple of times. And, you know, that was all thanks to Bob.
02:40 But this place was such an important... for me as a kid.
02:44 Such a hub for me and my mates, you know.
02:48 And I heard a few years ago it was at risk of closing down and I was horrified.
02:53 But they've turned it round. They've even added a gym now.
02:57 So it's such a great facility and I'm so pleased it's going strong.