COMEDIAN Ted Robbins held his hands up after police caught him not wearing a seatbelt.

The funnyman had been in the passenger seat chatting on the phone to his sister Emma and was about to put his seatbelt on when their car was stopped by officers.

Ted, his wife Judy and their two children were barely 300 yards from their home when police flagged them down in Rawtenstall, around 2pm on Wednesday.

The radio presenter, who works at Radio Lancashire in Blackburn, said he instantly knew what he had done wrong and said he would belt up from now on.

Police had been carrying out a spot check in the area when the family were stopped.

He was given a fixed penalty notice and attended a road safety awareness course in conjunction with police and Lancashire Fire and rescue at Rawtenstall fire station last night.

Ted, who said the family were on the way to the dentist, said: “I’m trying to be positive about it. The officers were nice about it.

“I was on the phone to my sister Emma while I getting into the car and I had pulled my seatbelt half over me when we were stopped. I wasn’t driving.

“My 18-year-old daughter was rolling her eyes because I was embarrassing her.

“She tells me off for not wear-ing my seatbelt all the time.

“I don’t always wear it, people of a certain age don’t if they are just going down the road but if you brake you will go through the windscreen.

“But I will be wearing it from now on.”

He added: “I have always supported the authorities.

"The message to everyone is phone off, seatbelt on and don’t drink and drive.

"I don’t drink and drive anyway.”