I have got a GRANDSON!'

Jenny Eclair reveals she's a new grandma and tells us why she loves just pottering about

Jenny Eclair is busier than ever, as not only is her comedy tour in great demand but she’s recently become a grandma, thanks to daughter Phoebe, 33, who’s a playwright.

‘I have got a grandson!’ Jenny tells us excitedly. ‘He’s called Arlo.

‘I do like having a grandson. Particularly when he’s smiling. That is very sweet. But it is tiring helping out – and it’s really nerve-racking.

‘He had a cold last week and that was terrifying! I have always been an overly anxious parent so I thought it wouldn’t be as bad as a grandparent, but it is.

‘Sometimes I think, “Would it have been easier not to have this worry?” then you think, “I love them so much.”‘

As well as belly laughs from Jenny’s show – which documents struggles over turning 60 and how to embrace it – there’s plenty of realism too.

‘It’s laughing in the face of turning 60,’ Jenny says. ‘All the things 60-year-olds think and worry about. The bladder being a useless article…

‘You feel the audience getting tense when you talk about death… I do the show by myself so you have to have light and shade.’

Some of the light comes in the form of Jenny reading out some of the audience’s bucket-list wishes.