Lou Sanders is writing her first book, focusing on mistakes she's made in her life.

The comic is currently writing her debut memoir, she confirmed to British Comedy Guide in an interview published today.

Currently appearing as co-host on the Dave panel/chat format Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, Sanders first disclosed she was working on the book on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch in August, writing it during the Edinburgh Fringe to meet a January deadline.

"It's very bad because I think it's going to be very revealing" she told presenters Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer. "So I think my family are going to really hate it. All the sort of stuff you can't talk about on a brunch show."

The stand-up, who hosts the Cuddle Club podcast, in which she asks guests how they express physical affection, among other things, added: "I've written 4,000 words. That's a chapter on, let's just say, intimacy."

The title and book's publisher have yet to emerge. And Sanders, whose 2018 Edinburgh Fringe show, Shame Pig, revealed why she became teetotal and sought to absolve herself of her most embarrassing mistakes through ownership of them, by turning them into stand-up, declined to reveal to BCG the stories she'll be including in its chapters.

But she laid out her position on censorship and outrage culture, saying: "I hate when things are whitewashed and we're pretending we're not human. We pretend we don't make mistakes and it's really damaging for society. And of course, we've all done heinous things, that's how we learn. It's really dangerous for society if everyone's pretending otherwise.

"That thing of the media taking a line out of a thing, out of context. Trying to blow it up and heap shame on someone, that's such a dangerous element of culture. Everyone's scared to admit what they've done. That doesn't help anyone."

Praising Joel Dommett for the way he reacted to being catfished, after The Masked Singer presenter was tricked into being filmed masturbating by online blackmailers, Sanders added: "He owned it and was very funny about it. He was like, people have sexual relationships with people. This outrage culture is so dangerous, the people pushing it aren't so clean and it doesn't get us anywhere really."

Elsewhere in the interview, she reflected on performing on the roof of the O2 Arena in London minutes after it was announced that The Queen had died, and shared her ambition to host a dating show. Read the full interview