I don't know if I'm Cumming or going with mad Miriam!

SCOT IN A STATE OF SHOCK OVER HIS TRAVEL PAL

- RICK FULTON

ALAN Cumming laughs off travelling companion Miriam Margolyes' outrageous behaviour by claiming she's just saying "all the things people want to say but daren't".

The 81-year-old, who was born in Oxford but whose dad Joseph was from 5 Glasgow, has become infamous for her plain speaking.

Just this week she described I'm a Celeb politician Matt Hancock as an "appalling adulterous creep".

She's also farted on This Morning, asked her Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe if he had a foreskin, and revealed on one of her many Graham Norton outings her rented.

cottage in Dover was used by a gang to drop off cocaine and had been dubbed Miriam Escobar.

X-Men star Alan, 57 from Aberfeldy, Perthshire, takes it all in his stride - even when her plain-speaking is directed at him.

But admitted he still is shocked at what she sometimes says.

The odd couple of TV are back for a second helping of their travel show, this time going to Scotland and America in Miriam & Alan: Lost in Scotland and Beyond across four episodes, which airs on Channel 4.

He said: "I'm constantly shocked! I should know by now after two series of this show but I'm still shocked by what she says.

"Even in situations where I can see she's warming up, when she's got an audience and she's going to break with some potty mouthed or radical theory, I can sometimes see it.

coming but I'm still shocked that she's dared to say it or do it." Their first adventure together, Lost in Scotland, shown last year, was a huge success and Miriam was up to her old tricks as soon as they met up again - slagging off his hair which he'd grown out to play Robert Burns at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.