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The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe viewers can't get over Karl Pilkington's role in drama

Ricky Gervais' pal and notorious grump was acting in the new ITV drama

Wales Online

Canoe man 'nearly spotted gardening' when he was pretending to be dead

John Darwin and his wife were handed more than six years behind bars for the fraud

Wales Online

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe review – an unforgettable tale of marital muppets

Why would you go along with your husband’s plan to fake his death and live behind a wardrobe? This droll, laughter-chasing dramatisation of a real-life insurance scam tries to explain it

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Canoe man John Darwin nearly blew own cover when seen gardening after faking death

John Darwin was so cocky about not being recognised in his disguise of a beard and a hat - while his sons mourned him, he would potter around in the garden

Daily Mirror

Canoe Man cop says John Darwin made one fatal error before claiming amnesia

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe was inspired by a book of the same name, co-written by Tony Hutchinson, a former Cleveland detective who investigated the Darwins

Daily Mirror

Death, fraud and canoes: how a mind-blowing insurance scam became an ITV drama

John Darwin pretended to die at sea – then spent years in a secret room in his house while his sons mourned. As The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe brings the caper to TV, its creator and star talk crime, coercion … and dentures

The Guardian - UK

Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan reveal John Darwin's son sneaked onto set of new ITV show

Actors Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan have shared that the son of John Darwin appeared on set of new ITV show about his father while dressed in disguise

Irish Mirror

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