Over Christmas 2008, Lavender appeared in "Celebrity Mastermind" on BBC One. As presenter John Humphrys asked his name, fellow contestant Rick Wakeman shouted 'Don't tell him, Pike!', a reference to Captain Mainwaring's most famous line from "Dad's Army". At the start of 2009, Lavender appeared as a guest character in an episode of the CBBC sitcom, "The Legend of Dick and Dom". Lavender starred in the film, "31 North 62 East" (released September 2009), an independent psychological thriller starring John Rhys-Davies, Marina Sirtis, Heather Peace and Craig Fairbrass.