BRITAIN’S self-styled Literally Tsar has launched a correctional campaign to halt the routine misuse of the word.

And he’s highlighted our own Jamie Redknapp as the nation’s worst offender.

Comedian Paul Parry, the man who cycled from A (in Norway) to Bee (in Nebraska, USA), is urging Jamie and his fellow commentators to think carefully about what they’re saying.

Sky Sports football pundit Jamie, who has a house at Sandbanks, certainly has a way with the word: Here’s a few of his literally on-air pronouncements:

• “He literally turns into a greyhound.”

• “He’s literally left Ben Haim for dead there.”

• “Centre forwards have the ability to make time stand still. And when Chopra got the ball, it literally did just that.”

• “This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.”

• “Messi literally sends people out of the stadium with his skill.”

• “He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot”

And former motor racing commentator Murray Walker, who lives at New Milton, has also been singled out for literally two offences against the word:

“An Achilles heel for the McLaren team this year, and it’s literally the heel because it’s the gearbox.”

“And Panis is almost literally laughing his head off in that car.”

But it was literally news to Murray when we literally asked him to comment.

“Nobody’s ever pointed that out to me before,” he said.

“All that happens when you commentate is you see pictures on a screen that the viewers at home see and you say the words that come into your head. That’s all there is to it.”