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Comedian and television presenter Justin Lee Collins made his girlfriend recount every sexual experience she had ever had for a notebook he kept as part of a campaign of domestic abuse, a jury has been told.

The 38-year-old also made Anna Larke throw away her DVD collection "on the basis she found some of the male actors in the movies attractive", it is alleged.

The performer assaulted and harassed his girlfriend during their nine-month relationship last year, said prosecutor Peter Shaw, at St Albans Crown Court.

A jury of nine women and three men heard that Collins, who came to fame with Channel 4's The Friday Night Project, made Ms Larke, 38, close her email, Facebook and Twitter accounts after reading her messages.

The pair met while Collins was still married. Ms Larke helped him move from Bristol to Kew, south west London, in January 2011, and she moved in with him.

Mr Shaw said: "The main part of that relationship was characterised by this defendant exerting control over her, verbally abusing her and physically assaulting her."

The defendant "exhibited a desire to restrict" his girlfriend's activities, the barrister said.

"Significantly, Mr Collins resorted to compiling a dossier in the form of a Pukka Pad notebook.

"The purpose of the notebook was to list every sexual experience with every one of Ms Larke's previous lovers or partners.

"He would ask her questions and then write it down.

"She felt it was a disgusting thing to have to do and she was worried that she would lose him by doing it.

"He sometimes accused her of lying about the details of her past and initially she did lie about her past because she regarded it as acutely private but he told her that it would help the relationship and help him deal with her past."

Mr Shaw added: "When Mr Collins was satisfied that Ms Larke had provided a sufficient amount of information he signified his satisfaction with the word 'Done'."

Collins denies harassing his ex-partner and putting her "in fear of violence" between January and August last year.

Collins was "insistent" that his girlfriend, a recovering alcoholic, "sleep facing towards him and that, if he awoke in the dead of night to find that she turned away from him in the bed, he would rouse her and criticise her for having turned her back to him", the prosecutor said.

Mr Shaw said Ms Larke, a video games public relations worker, tried to help the defendant get anger management therapy and sent him a link to a domestic violence course.

"Mr Collins would often verbally abuse her and mention details in the pad," said the barrister.

"He would call her a slag and a filthy ***** and similar derogatory terms. He once told her she was riddled with STDs."

Mr Shaw added that he had threatened to "put her in hospital unless she shut up" and after once becoming jealous of a previous lover smacked her on the vagina with an open hand.

A party of schoolchildren on a field trip was sitting in the public gallery. Half left as the prosecution opened its case.

On a trip to Miami in March 2011, Collins grabbed his partner's hair and pulled her to the floor, the barrister said.

"He pinned her down and spat in her face.

"She was screaming so loudly that a member of the hotel staff attended the room to see what was happening."

In May that year, Collins returned home from filming abroad and was "angry" that Ms Larke had only managed to attend one Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that day rather than two.

"He wanted to know what she had been doing while he was away and accused her of infidelity," Mr Shaw said.

"He was slapping her and she was forced to flee the flat screaming for help."

The trial continues ...