Paul Whitehouse admits being 'quite rude at times' to Gone Fishing co-star Bob Mortimer

Father-of-two Bob had a triple heart bypass surgery back in 2015.

The pair, who have got used to people shouting out their character’s famous catchphrases over the years, said now people come up to them and thank them for raising awareness for heart disease.

“Now they come up and say ‘Thank you for getting my dad to have his heart checked out’,” Paul revealed.

It was their shared heart problems that inspired the duo to go on fishing trips together in the first place and it was there that the show as we know it was conceived.

Gone Christmas Fishing is on BBC Two on Sunday at 8.10pm

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are appearing on Sunday Brunch this morning at 9.30am on Channel 4.