BBC bosses threatened to fine Alan Carr after his rescue dog Rita tore up his dressing room backstage at RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The comic brought Rita along to the studios with him, but had to leave her behind while he recorded scenes for the series.
Alan Carr’s dog Rita got him into trouble at work[/caption]
Rita suffers from separation anxiety[/caption]
Alan speaks about the unfortunate moment on his podcast[/caption]
But Rita, who he adopted last year, howled with separation anxiety and scratched the door attempting to escape.
“At RuPaul’s Drag Race, I took Rita along and I went down to the show and she scratched through the door,” Alan reveals.
“They said they were gonna charge me for the door because she had chewed up all the bottom.”
Fortunately, Alan managed to patch up the damage.
“Someone fixed it for me, but she was anxious – she wanted to see her daddy.
“She was howling and I said: ‘It’s fine, she’ll stop in a minute.
“But I came back after an hour and she was going: ‘Howl!”
Alan was speaking to Cat Burns on the new episode of his Life’s A Beach podcast, out on Monday.
Alan is a judge on the panel of RuPaul’s Drag Race alongside Graham Norton and Michelle Visage.
Rita has previously caused chaos while Alan was working as she tipped a cup of piping hot tea over Miranda Hart while she recorded an episode of his podcast with her.
Miranda and Alan could be seen sitting on a sofa while chatting away for the podcast episode when a dog emerged and caused total chaos.
As the two comedians yapped away, Miranda picked up a cup of tea and started to have a sip.
“Come and sit here,” Alan could be heard saying to his dog, Rita, whom he rescued.
Rita didn’t listen to Alan, with the comedian saying: “She’s deaf,” before he and Miranda began their conversation again.
Just as Miranda started to drink her piping hot cup of tea, Alan said “Come here now” and then his dog jumped across the sofa and onto her lap.
As the dog jumped across Miranda’s lap, the comedian spilled her tea and it went down her front – covering her top and lap.
Both Miranda and Alan burst out in laughter, with the two stars in hysterics.
“Oh no! Rita’s just thrown a cup of tea over Miranda,” Alan exclaimed before he stood up and walked out of the shot.
“Oh my god,” Alan added, before asking Miranda if the hot tea was “scolding her” as she held a tea towel on her stomach.
The recording of the podcast was thrown into chaos when Miranda’s tea spilled over her[/caption]
The tea went over Miranda when Alan called his dog to sit on the sofa[/caption]
