John Bishop has been talking about filming in Rwanda for the ITV special John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure, in which he encounters one of the most endangered animals on the planet. 

Bishop spoke about the programme on The One Show on Thursday night and said getting close to the gorillas was one of the most moving experiences of his life. He also noticed that adolescent male Mountain Gorillas are just like his teenage sons – bulging muscles but no sense. Plus they fart, flirt and pick their noses.

The one-hour film follows John as he joins a group of vets who have dedicated their lives to saving the, sadly, precious few Mountain Gorillas left in the wild rugged mountains and valleys between the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda, which were made famous to UK viewers by David Attenborough’s iconic sequence filmed among them in the 1970s.