TV FUNNYMAN Adam Hills was greeted with a question when setting up the biggest passion in is life – a Physical Disability Rugby League team – ‘Who the f*** is Adam Hills?’

The host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg turns out for Warrington’s side that is now world champions in the growing discipline of PDRL.

Australian Hills, who only has one foot, is the driving force behind the Wolves’ set-up but the response when he first approached people about setting up the team was more mixed.

And it is laid bare in TV documentary Adam Hills: Take His Legs about his journey on and off the pitch.

Neil Kelly from the team and Warrington’s foundation said: “One random Monday morning the phone went. Some Aussie bloke telling me how he wanted to start a Physical Disability Rugby League team.

“He told me all about how he’s an Australian comedian who’s a presenter on a TV show. I’d never actually heard of him.

“Who the f*** is Adam Hills?”

Hills’ journey from TV star to helping set up Warrington’s side to kicking the final points against his boyhood heroes South Sydney in front of owner and Hollywood star Russell Crowe is documented tonight.

It takes in him giving away the Wolves’ first try conceded, him being taken to hospital after being knocked out cold and being left in tears because of it.

The stories of his team-mates, who have limbs effectively re-amputated after the first game, who suffer from cerebral palsy or Down’s Syndrome, who appear as an able bodied player because of his brother who was left disabled because of a childhood brain tumour are also told.

Player Tony Seward travels 450 miles to Warrington from Tiverton, Devon for training.

Hills’ wife Ali sums it up brilliantly by saying: “It’s definitely midlife crisis but it’s better than buying a Porsche or having an affair.”

And the comedian tells how he became involved in the sport.

Hills says: “It really came about because of one tweet, ‘Did you know that South Sydney’s PDRL team won last week?’ I didn’t know what PDRL was.

“There were people like me in Australia playing the sport and no-one over here had ever thought to do it.

“And when I play, I’m not the guy off the telly. I don’t have to be a certain person.”

Hills, 49, helped form Warrington’s side and raise funds so it could travel to Sydney to face the club he idolised, South Sydney, and beat them 34-12 to be crowned PDRL world champions.

With tactics as simple as, ‘Run at ‘em, f***ing hard, the journey to the top pays off, but for many of his team-mates just seeing what he is really like is enough.

Craig Thomason, of Warrington’s foundation, said: “I was expecting some kind of entourage. He always comes across on telly as proper nice. I wondered if maybe I’ll see the real Adam Hills, I’m waiting for him to batter a kitten or something!”

*ADAM Hills: Take His Legs is on Channel 4 tonight at 11.30pm.

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