NEW material by comedy star Harry Enfield has been stolen, it has emerged.
His thoughts for a new series of his BBC show were on a laptop computer taken from a car.
The BBC said filming would not start for another six months, so it would not affect the programme.
Yesterday, it was reported thieves broke into Enfield’s wife Lucy’s Mini Clubman, parked outside their London home last week.
Some time later, he received a phone call demanding £750 for the return of the computer, containing jokes for his Harry & Paul show, with Paul Whitehouse, to be shown on BBC2 next year.
Enfield refused to pay and is working with police to get the computer back.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “There have been no arrests and enquiries continue.”
