BILLY Connolly has revealed that his home in Florida previously belonged to a "drug trafficker."

The Big Yin is set to be the star of a new series called "Billy Connolly Does..." which will begin on Gold this Thursday evening at 9pm.

Entertainment magazine Radio Time shared a clip of Billy talking about the town he now lives in. He said: "This was a drug trafficker's house. He had boats and helicopters and stuff. The back...well there's no back.

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"You go in and shut the door and your car is in the garden and you can escape to the river. So if they were being chased, they'd come in and it looks like this garage has been shut forever.

"It's like that here.

"They don't operate above the law but they don't operate within it either.

"There's a naked bar where you can go naked for a pint if you feel like it."

Billy retired from performing in 2018 after he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease five years previously.

As a result, he is enjoying a much easier pace of life at his tropical home with wife Pamela Stephenson. He told the Daily Record: "She’s incredibly bright and she can do four things at once. And she can speed-read. And she knows how you buy a house, I haven’t a clue.

"It works out brilliantly and she knows how to look after the children, how to get them into school and out of school and into the world.

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Billy also revealed that he was "blissfully unaware" of how the world worked. He added:

“She does all of that and I smile in the background and say funny things from time to time.”

In the show, which also features comedy from Billy’s archives, he admitted: “I’m kind of blissfully unaware of how the world works.

“It’s a sin, really. I’ve been looked after by managers and people all my life.

“And now it’s Pamela and the children.”