Comic Relief fan has Britain’s largest collection of the charity’s red noses – and is only missing one

COMIC Relief fan Andy Green has an impressive collection not to be sniffed at — Britain’s largest array of the charity’s famous red noses.

Tech expert Andy, 27, has all bar one of the 70 comedy clip-ons released since they were first sold in 1988.

He’s only missing a golden schnoz from 2015 but just 12 of them were made.

Even so, he’s determined to land one and has online alerts set up to tell him if one comes up for sale.

Andy got his first red nose, which squeaks when pressed, aged four.

He began collecting aged 12 and has spent around £120 on the hooters.

His favourites include a bespectacled dinosaur — T-Specs — from 2013, a 1997 shaggy foam nose and a superhero one from 2015, known as Supernose.

He said: “I even have one with a tuft of red hair that you could put gel on as well as noses that look like monsters, dinosaurs, medieval knights and so on. My first was a sparkly red nose when I was four.

"I definitely found it exciting because it squeaked. My teachers hated it because of the noise.”

Andy, from Putney, South West London, reckons he has donated more than £2,500 to Comic Relief over the years, adding: “It is one of my main passions”.

• RED Nose Day returns on Friday on BBC1.