PA/Huffington Post UK  |  Posted: 26/09/2012 13:29 BST Updated: 26/09/2012 17:53 BST

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 court heard on Wednesday. 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 to be 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. snip 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. snip He said his daughter told them Collins had “grabbed her hair, dragged her around the room and smacked her in the private parts” during a trip to America. “It was a great shock to me. I can’t believe he would beat her up. I am very upset about it,” he told the court. However both parents told the court Miss Larke, a recovering alcoholic, told them she did not drink while she was in the relationship with the comic. Mrs Larke said: “He told her if he saw her with a sip of wine then she would be out the door.” Her daughter has told the court she had agreed to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings because Collins asked her to. The court has also heard that Collins, on receiving a barrage of texts from Miss Larke following the break-up, telephoned Mr Larke and told him his daughter need expert help and should attend AA meetings.         He said his daughter told them Collins had “grabbed her hair, dragged her around the room and smacked her in the private parts” during a trip to America. “It was a great shock to me. I can’t believe he would beat her up. I am very upset about it,” he told the court. However both parents told the court Miss Larke, a recovering alcoholic, told them she did not drink while she was in the relationship with the comic. Mrs Larke said: “He told her if he saw her with a sip of wine then she would be out the door.” Her daughter has told the court she had agreed to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings because Collins asked her to. The court has also heard that Collins, on receiving a barrage of texts from Miss Larke following the break-up, telephoned Mr Larke and told him his daughter need expert help and should attend AA meetings. The case was adjourned until Tuesday morning. snip He told the nine women and three men of the jury that he was described as her “rescuer” by someone who attended Ms Larke’s Alcoholics Anonymous meetings because he wanted to help her so much.