Mitchell: 'Tipping is embarrassing'

Peep Show comic David Mitchell has revealed that he finds tipping in restaurants embarrassing.

Mitchell told the Daily Mail that he tries to stick rigidly to the accepted 12.5% addition to the price of a meal.

"I find tipping very embarrassing and I just try to tip whatever the calculated amount is. I wish it was just included in the price," he said.

The actor suggested that he is not alone in his discomfort and that the act of tipping is insulting to the recipient.

He explained: "I think a lot of British people feel embarrassed about tipping. It's like saying 'I now give you, my man, an extra bit of money on top of the money I actually owe because to me money is nothing and yet for you, this pound may transform your life'."