Strictly Come Dancing host Josh Widdicombe 'whacked' by angry passenger on a flight
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Josh Widdicombe alleged a man "whacked [him] in the back" after the comedian put his shoe on the passenger's empty seat while the man was in the toilet.
Josh Widdicombe alleges he was "whacked" in the back by an angry man mid-flight after the star put his shoe on the passenger's chair while waiting for the toilet.
The 43-year-old comedian innocently put his foot on the empty seat, but the row ignited after a woman beside the vacant spot told Josh that her husband, who was in the toilet, was sitting there.
Despite the new Strictly Come Dancing host apologising, the couple refused to accept it and confronted him, which led to an altercation on the flight from Greece, where Josh holidayed with his family, to the UK.
Josh revealed on the latest episode of his and 40-year-old fellow comic Rob Beckett's Parenting Hell podcast: "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.
"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.
"She doesn’t expect the apology, she tries to continue telling me off. So I kind of turned back and queued up."
Josh alleged: "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?'"
As the furious man grabbed "napkins to wipe down his seat", The Last Leg star continued apologising, but the situation "got worse".
Josh continued: "I could only apologise what else could I do.
"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 me in, 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! He might be germaphobic, I suppose."
The Taskmaster alum added: "Honestly, at the end I was worried he was going to confront me, it was weird."
