
According to Rob Beckett, he was almost cast in the hit Netflix series The Crown.
The 37-year-old comic said on Friday’s episode of The Graham Norton Show that he had been auditioned three times for a role in the Peter Morgan thriller.
This conversation was sparked by the fact that Sarah Michelle Gellar, M. Night Shyamalan, and Claire Foy, star of The Crown, all appeared on the talk show hosted by the narrator of Celebs Go Dating.
After Graham informed his guests that Rob was being considered for a role on the blockbuster series, Rob said, “You know there was the decorator that broke into the palace and spoke to the Queen?
‘Yeah, that was me. That’s what I auditioned for. I auditioned three times. Got close, didn’t I?’

‘So if you’re interested,’ he said turning to The Sixth Sense director Night, ‘All I’m saying is you love a twist at the end; imagine if old Bobby B turned up.’
Rob claimed he wasn’t too bummed out by the outcome of the audition because it’s a “big show.”
‘And I thought I’d done really well,’ he continued. ‘I got some really good feedback, which I can email you,’ he joked, speaking to Night again.

Continuing to jest, he said: ‘Actually I think what they said was actually I was a little bit too muscular because the guy was a bit thinner and I’m a bit more stacked.’
‘That would have been amazing if you had gotten it,’ Graham added, before Rob jumped in, laughing: ‘Yeah it would have been, wouldn’t it?’
‘It would have been exciting for me because I’ve done lots of comedy acting and this was quite a straight role. The guy was having a bit of a breakdown.’

The Crown’s sixth and final season has begun filming, and it’s been speculated that it will take place in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
It was reported earlier this week that Dominic West, who plays King Charles, and a woman who looks like Geri Halliwell were on location in Winchester, likely recording the scene in which Geri patted the monarch on the behind.
The Graham Norton Show airs next Friday at 10.40pm on BBC One.