Alan Davies is a regular on QI and he’s been Jonathan Creek, but from now on – whatever he does – Alan Davies will only be known as the man who bit a tramp on the ear.

It has emerged that after drinks at the Groucho Club last week, Alan Davies flew into a bit of a rage and bit a tramp on the ear. Davies’ tramp-biting exercise went on for 13 seconds and left 40-year-old Paul McElfatrick bleeding out of his ear. It’s thought that Alan Davies didn’t get away with biting the tramp’s ear because it was all caught on CCTV, and also because just before he bit the tramp’s ear, Alan Davies told him “My name’s Alan. You know my name – Alan. What’s my name? It’s Alan.” However, McElfatrick still didn’t really recognise Alan Davies until he reticently added “You know, off Jonathan Creek,” at which point the tramp went “Oh yeah,” allowing the ear-biting session to begin in earnest.