Comedian and Strictly Come Dancing 2020 winner Bill Bailey has signed a deal to his memoir.

My Animals and Other Animals will be published on 10th October.

The book will tell Bailey’s life as well as look at how all people’s lives are enriched by the animals who accompany them on that journey.

Bailey shares his home with a variety of birds, dogs, frogs, chameleons and an armadillo called Tommy.

“We even had a giant chicken at the house for a while, a huge Malay cockerel, Kid Creole,” he said. “After a few stand-offs he took against me. He had to go in the end, I was being stalked in my own back garden.”