Karl Pilkington

On February 28, 2012, the Royal Television Society announced Karl Pilkington's nomination for the 2011 RTS Programme Award for Presenter for his starring role in An Idiot Abroad 2, a Risk Productions travel documentary series broadcast on Sky 1.

Much to the derision of his father, during a school Nativity production Karl Pilkington spontaneously delighted the audience when he famously performed a successful drum accompaniment to a festive song titled "Little Donkey."

Karl Pilkington claims that at age five while on vacation in Padstow in Cornwell, he befriended a ghost named Mrs. Battersby, whom he says he would talk with at bedtime.

Having failed to collect them after leaving school, Ricky Gervais famously gave Karl Pilkington his General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results live on air, revealing that his then Xfm London radio program producer had earned a sole E grade in history.

Karl Pilkigton feels so strongly about killing that he once attempted to rescue a fruit fly whose wings were paint-fused together after lighting on the window sill Karl was painting.

Karl Pilkington earns $300,000 per year and has a net worth of $3.5 million.

Karl Pilkington once ran a mobile disco named Pilkie's Makin Music with his friend Colin Makin.

Karl Pilkington aspires to produce programs about insects similar to the documentaries created by Sir David Attenborough, Britain's best-known natural history film-maker.

Karl Pilkington does not like being tardy and is a stickler for deadlines.

Comedian Ricky Gervais, who would later declare his friend Karl Pilkington to be "the funniest man alive in Britain today," but also labeled him "an idiot," once compared Pilkington to finding a magic lamp: "When you rubbed it, magical twaddle came out."

Karl Pilkington is implicitly fascinated with "freaks," an obsession his friend Ricky Gervais often attributes to the "weird looking" students Karl attended school with near a chemical plant.

While working at Key 103, a radio station in Manchester, England, Karl Pilkington and his long-time girlfriend Suzanne Whiston met when she lent him money for hot chocolate. Karl later did some editing work for Suzanne, resulting in Whiston buying another hot chocolate for Pilkington. The couple presently live together in London and Surrey.

Karl Pilkington does not care for sloths or spiders, the latter of which he claims his mother is quite fond of, and one of which has lived under her television for years and she continues to protect.

Having co-authored his first semi-factual book, The World of Karl Pilkington (2006), with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington went on to write three books of his own: Happy Slapped by Jellyfish (2007), Karlology: What I've Learnt So Far (2008), and An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington (2010).