OK!! So it wasn’t quite as cosy as it looked. I now need to reveal the whole truth and show you the full photograph before my friend never speaks to me again for cutting her out.
We were having dinner with some friends on Saturday night. Their son was cooking us a three course Cordon Bleu meal because he needs to practice his chef skills. My son and Builder Bloke’s son was there too along with about six other adults. At some point during the proceedings I picked up a text from above mentioned friend. Before even thinking about whether it was inappropriate behaviour or not I shouted out – “OMG Matt LeBlanc is in the pub just round the corner – we have to go!! Who’s coming with me?” Up got the chef, my son, BB’s son and off we went – “Back soon!” just need a quick photo’ I said, but still, HOW RUDE!!
Anyway, at the pub we were all attempting to do a casual not really stalking you Matt sort of lean against the bar stance but it wasn’t a good look and we all worked out that our best chance of success was if we sat outside and waited for him to come out for a fag. He was with about six friends having a lovely time and we obviously couldn’t just go up and disturb his evening. There was barely anybody else in the pub. Nobody else appeared to have even noticed him. Anyway, we had to sit outside for ages – some of the smokers in our group were attempting to blow smoke through a window near where he was sitting to entice him out. “BLOODY HELL, how long is he going to be? Why can’t he be a massively heavy smoker? It’s been at least 25 minutes since his last one”……
Then success. My friend inside texted “FAG!!”. Honestly. It was a finely tuned plan. Worked wonders.
But of course when he did finally come outside with his mate for a quiet chat and a fag it was me that had to pounce – mostly because the only way I was going to be able to justify abandoning my friends mid mouthful was by pretending it was essential material for my blog. Also the teenagers were way too cool to do anything but sit there and ignore him even though for my son “Friends” has been his all time favourite programme ever whilst growing up. So I marched up, apologised profusely for disturbing him but asked if I could take a quick photo of him with my son and I was trying to be cool ish and then my friend came up and went “actually my daughter loves you more than her son so can i have a picture too and then my son arrived and was ridiculously uncool – shaking his hand and telling him how much he loved him and what an inspiration he’d been and then the other two boys came up and they all shook hands with him and he was totally surrounded. So we took our photos and skipped away. Back to our party. He was really lovely about it but I felt bad because we sort of started a little mini tsunami of photo opportunites from all those people in the pub who had pretended not to notice him.
Oh well. Perhaps if you’re paid £1m a show you have to be prepared for a little bit of that.
Anyway, here is the full photo, disappointingly. Although I have to say he does seem to be leaning more towards me.
Is he single? I forgot to ask him.
Crystal Jigsaw
October 31, 2011So funny!! What a fabulous photo – he looks pretty cool to me! I think I would have been tempted to wait for the photo, too!!
CJ xx
jen
October 31, 2011That’s so cool, thanks for sharing. BTW he’s not single, he’s dating Andrea Anders.
Family Affairs
October 31, 2011OH. U have just ruined my day Lxx
jen
October 31, 2011haha sorry about that =) I know it’s a sad little fact
Expat Mum
October 31, 2011I have never been able to decide whether I would be one of those stars who was always gracious and didn’t mind being interrupted, or whether I would be a total grump. Obviously nothing I need to be worrying about and i hope I’d be a gracious as Matt here. And yes, body language totally giving away his lustful preferences.
Family Affairs
October 31, 2011Thank ypu…thats what I thought!! ha ha x
N xx
October 31, 2011Ah, that’s better! I’m back in the frame and it’s obvious that he’s elbowing you out of the way! Xx
Family Affairs
November 1, 2011Ha ha – you wish x