Lily savaged

Paul O’Grady has recovered after being attacked by a 2ft adder, his spokeswoman said today.

The snake bit O’Grady’s arm after slithering out of some firewood in the chat show host's Kent home.

O'Grady, also the alter ego of abrasive comic Lily Savage, told the Daily Mirror: “I didn’t realise I was bitten at first but I looked at my right arm and there was blood gushing down from it.

“I saw two puncture marks and I realised I had been bitten – and it must have been a snake. It really started to hurt and then I saw a snake on the logs.”

His spokeswoman said: “He’s absolutely fine. He was able to do the show.” She said he was shaken by the incident but was able to see the funny side.

The adder is the only poisonous snake native to Britain.