CUB leader Liz Clayton got the surprise of her life when she and her son appeared on BBC TV's Generation Game.

Her cubs had been secretly smuggled into the studio and were brought on stage during filming to help host Jim Davidson plunge her face in a giant cream cake.

Liz, of Cranbrook Avenue, Oswaldtwistle, had been appearing on the popular Saturday night gameshow with her son, Phil.

He said: "Around 10 cubs went down to the filming at television centre. They brought the cake on stage and Jim Davidson put it in my mum's face.

"She was very surprised to see them and had no idea they were there. I think it will be included in the show when it is broadcast."

Liz, 54, is leader at the Ernest Street Baptist Street Cubs in Church and works as a coffee shop manageress. Television bosses had arranged the surprise appearance behind her back and put the cubs and their parents up in a London hotel for the night.

Her 32-year-old son, of Richmond Road, Accrington, works as a comedy vocalist and regularly performs on stage.

But his job did not prepare him for his star performance. The father-of-two said: "I was probably more nervous than anyone. They made us do some unusual things, including walking a trick dog and shaving a balloon with a cut-throat razor.

"But I am not allowed to say how we got on until the show is broadcast."

The couple clinched places on the show after going for a audition in Manchester.

They got a telephone call inviting them to take part in the real thing just a few weeks before filming started.

The filming took a full day and they were put up in a top London Hotel.

The show is due to be broadcast on January 31 next year.

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