SH0CK: Strictly’s Josh Widdicombe hit by passenger in furious plane seat row
The comedian found himself in a tense argument after a family holiday.
Josh Widdicombe was hit by an angry plane passenger (Image: ITV)
New Strictly Come Dancing host Josh Widdicombe was at the centre of a mid-air mishap with an angry passenger. The pair clashed after the comedian put his shoe on his assailant’s seat while waiting to use the toilet on a plane.
Dad-of-two Josh says the furious man hit him in the back after not accepting the star’s apology during the embarrassing altercation flying from Greece back to the UK after a family holiday. Talking 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.”
Josh has been named as one of the new Strictly presenters (Image: Getty)
He went on: “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.”
Josh shared that “it got worse” as 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 then summed up the whole experience, saying: “He might be germophobic I suppose. Honestly, at the end, I was worried he was going to confront me, it was weird.
