David Walliams sang Elton John songs to take his mind off sharks during his Sport Relief challenge.
The Little Britain comedian swam the 12-mile Strait of Gibraltar with Olympic rower James Cracknell in just over four and a half hours on March 7.
Walliams, 36, said: “I was singing to try and get me through it. I was singing Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word and Your Song.
“When you’re in the water if you start thinking about where you are you think ‘I want this to be over’ but if you think about nice things like Elton John songs it kind of passes the time.
“I found it really tough. About two hours in I started to get sea sick. The sea was really rough and I swallowed a lot of sea water.
“I started feeling really nauseous and throwing up. I got really demoralised so I had to talk to myself and say ‘you’ve got to do it, you’ve got to do it,” he said on Channel 4’s Richard and Judy.
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