Josh Widdicombe was whacked by a furious fellow passenger on a flight back from Greece after putting his shoe on the man's seat while queuing for the toilet.
Comedian's mistake on plane
The new Strictly Come Dancing host was returning from a family holiday when he put his foot on the man's seat. Speaking on the Parenting Hell podcast, he said: 'It was on the plane back from Greece I went up to the toilet at the front of the queue and you know the front seats, there was someone at the window seat and then there were two empty seats so I perched on the arm of the end empty seat and I looked down and my shoe was undone so I put it up on the corner of the seat, fine, I made a mistake.'
Angry reaction
Josh admitted he made a mistake when he put his foot on the man's seat. He continued: 'The woman at the end said "excuse me, that's my husband's seat", so I was like fine, sorry I've made my mistake, put my foot down. But she doesn't expect the apology, she tries to continue telling me off. So I kind of turned back and queued up.'
'The guy comes out of the loo. He sits down and then he goes past me and whacks me in the back as he goes past me. You know like Richard Ashcroft in that Urban Hymns video, like a footballer off the ball and then he goes past me and goes, "did you put your foot on my seat?" He was getting napkins to wipe down his seat.'
Ongoing tension
Josh revealed that 'it got worse' and that he 'could only apologise'. He continued: 'He sits down and the air steward has to check he's alright and he comes back and is like "there's one on every flight isn't there?" The air steward starts to confide in me, so I start to dig into this and start laughing away with the air steward, I really go for it with the charming chat with the air stewards. At that point a woman comes up and says she's a fan of me and I think "this is glorious".'
'Then later on the flight I go to the toilet again and the woman is still staring at me, even as I walk down the aisle she cranes her neck to evil me, I've said sorry by this point. An hour later I hear the stewards saying "he's still cleaning the seat with his napkin", it's been an hour!'
Josh added: 'He might be germophobic I suppose. Honestly, at the end, I was worried he was going to confront me, it was weird.'
