Jack Whitehall gave up his US comedy career after being booked to perform in 'a sex shop'

Jack Whitehall gave up his US comedy career after being booked to perform in “a sex shop”.

The ‘Bad Education’ star wasn’t sure if he had arrived at the right spot when he rocked up to his gig, which happened to be at an adult-only store in Los Angeles.

The 34-year-old funnyman told fellow comedian Alan Carr, 46, on his ‘Life’s A Beach’ podcast: “I got to the address and thought, ‘This can’t be right,' because it was a sex shop. A sex shop in the middle of West Hollywood.”

Jack explained to the ‘Chatty Man’ host that at realising this, he then rang his agent, who told him: “No, we didn’t mention that” about the venue, which produced a “quirky comedy night” at the rear of the shop.

The ‘Jungle Cruise’ star said “there was no stage” at the gig.

He explained: "It was like 30 seats set out in the middle of an active sex shop with people looking around.

“My ego is moderate but there are standards that I have, and I am afraid this is the threshold to tell them my plane got cancelled/ I never arrived/ I perished in the ocean.

“So I had to browse. I did some window shopping, and then walked out and went home.

“I was like, 'I think that’s it for my American career.’ "

Jack - who is in a relationship with model Roxy Horner, 31 - also detailed how mother, Hilary Whitehall, once prepared him for a lads holiday to Ibiza by slipping “30 condoms” into his bags.

He said: “I was still living at home at the time. I got out there and my mum had somehow managed to get into his suitcase.

“I opened it up on day one of this holiday and there were 30 condoms that she had smuggled into the bag. I was there for three days.

“I was like, ‘How much use do you think these would get?’ I was a very awkward 19-year-old boy.

"And the funny thing is, I counted them when I came back and there were 31. I’d gained a condom rather than used any of them on that trip."