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Paige Holland & Dan Wiggins

Would I Lie To You host before Rob Brydon you completely forgot about

Would I Lie to you? is the show that just keeps on giving - even 14 years on.

The award-winning comedy panel show, (informally abbreviated as WILTY), sees team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack encourage their celebrity guests to tell their weirdest facts and embarrassing stories.

Some of these are true; some are not and it is the panellists' task to decide which is which, reports My London.

Since 2009, we've come to know and love Rob Brydon as the host trying to confer with the two teams as they try to work out the fibs from the lies.

But the show was actually originally fronted by actor and writer Angus Deayton - and was even created with him in mind as host.

Rob Bryson has fronted the show for years (We Love TV)

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The first series he hosted back in 2007, brought the highest number of viewers of any, with 3.8 million.

However, he was censured by the BBC for making a "pungently personal" joke about Jimmy Savile and his mother on the show which neither the audience nor regular team captain Lee appreciated as he told Angus that it was "well out of line."

He left the show in 2009 and was replaced by Rob who has fronted it ever since.

The original cast (Zeppotron)

Angus previously also hosted the famous comedy panel show Have I Got News for You from 1990 to 2002, but left as a result of controversial stories being published about his personal life.

After his departure, Stephen Fry supported Angus by refusing to appear on the show again.

Since then, Angus, now aged 65, has had stints in a number of British comedies such as Blackadder, One Foot in the Grave, Waterloo Road and most recently on Death in Paradise.

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