A COMEDIAN described reports he lunged at Amanda Holden as “fictional” and says his audition for television show Britain's Got Talent was “blown out of proportion.”

National newspapers said Phil Zimmerman, who writes the monthly Pigeon Man column for the Gazette, made the 39-year-old actress flee.

But Mr Zimmerman, of West Ealing, said he only approached the remaining judges, Michael McIntyre and Louis Walsh, after she left the stage.

He said: “I spoke to the judges and mentioned something about inviting Michael McIntyre to my club. I went off and came back in character, you have to bear in mind that by this time I'd been waiting for nine hours which was a horrible and bizarre experience where I was subjected to all these interviews.

“I was the third from the last act, the audience had already been sitting there for three and a half hours and they just wanted to shout. My act is unusual and, surprise surprise, they didn't get it. They started shouting 'off, off'.

By this time Mr Zimmerman had acted out two of his comedy characters: Exploding Man which sees him go red and look as if he might pop, and pigeon man, where he bobs his head and struts about like the bird.

He said the acts had gone down well elsewhere but the audience at the auditions, in the Hammersmith Apollo, last Wednesday (5), was not the comedy crowd he is used to.

He said: “Amanda buzzed me off and I thought this'd be a good time to go into my last character, wolf man. I made a gesture towards her and she got up, I think she was milking the moment a bit, she is an actress.”

Afterwards Mr Zimmerman went to give Michael McIntyre a flyer for his club but he backed off after security guards moved towards him. He said claims he was bundled off by bouncers were untrue.

He added: “They never touched me, I saw I couldn't give the judges a flyer so I flicked one towards them and someone picked it up and gave it to them.”

He said he was amused by the reaction in the press, adding: “It's all publicity. I'm not a nutter and everyone who knows me knows that, I'm playing a character. I'm sorry if my act was a little too imaginative or subtle for the audience who were there. But I was offended by the suggestion I attacked pregnant Amanda Holden.”

Mr Zimmerman hopes the audition will be on television to prove his version of events, but those who cannot wait that long should visit his Number Five Club at the Drayton Court Hotel next Friday (Jan 21).

Mr Zimmerman will perform all three characters and hopes to hold a re-enactment of the Amanda Holden incident.