This Morning star sparks frenzied guessing game as she details rude encounter with A-list British celebrity – so can YOU figure out who it is?
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Journalist Camilla Tominey sent X/Twitter into meltdown on Tuesday as she asked followers to guess the British celebrity she had a rude encounter with that evening.
The presenter, 46 – who regularly appears on This Morning and has her own GB News show – took to social media to reveal she had bumped into a star she’d interviewed before he was famous, but he had proceeded to give her the brush off.
She penned: ‘Guesses please. Which well known British celebrity, when I approached him tonight in a genial manner to reminisce over interviewing him, over lunch, before he was famous, responded curtly: “I don’t remember anything before I was famous”?’
Camilla clarified that it was not done in jest, as a follower asked: ‘Was that said in a *I’m a star now so leave me alone’ way, or in a humorous way? If its humour it’s quite smart’, to which she responded: ‘The former’.
Several celebrities were put forward as the possible culprit, with Camilla confirming it was not Nigel Havers, Michael Sheen, Ed Sheeran, Benedict Cumberbatch or a politician.
So have you guessed who it is yet?
Journalist Camilla Tominey sent X/Twitter into meltdown on Tuesday as she asked followers to guess the British celebrity she had a rude encounter with that evening
The presenter, 46, took to social media to reveal she had bumped into a star she’d interviewed before he was famous, but he had proceeded to give her the brush off
Camilla clarified that it was not done in jest as she insisted it was a rude remark and not a joke
Camilla revealed she was referring to Jimmy Carr – one of Britain’s best known and richest comedians – and host of 8 Out Of 10 Cats.
When asked if it was ‘the one with the annoying laugh and surname is something you drive?’, she responded: ‘Possibly’, to which the fan followed up: ‘Yes, I’ve heard the same hence the guess.’
Another then guessed: ‘Jimmy Carr’? to which she responded: ‘Bingo! Advance to Mayfair’.
One questioned: ‘I’ve just been through Google but I can’t find an interview with a beloved British celebrity’, to which Camilla explained: ‘It never ran- he wasn’t famous enough.’
She concluded by tweeting: ‘What a Carr-y on. Night night x’.
MailOnline has contacted Jimmy’s representative for comment.
It’s not the first time Jimmy has been accused of rubbing up a This Morning presenter the wrong way.
Last year, he was branded ‘rude’ by viewers after he continuously interrupted chef Clodagh McKenna’s cooking segment.
He was due to chat with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary but before his segment, he watched the Irish chef and author in the kitchen and couldn’t help make a series of quips.
Clodagh put on a polite grin following a series of barbed comment as Dermot wrapped an arm around the TV chef to comfort her and said: ‘It’s hard work when your being heckled by one of the UK’s comedian’.
Several celebrities were put forward as the possible culprit, with Camilla confirming it was not Nigel Havers, Michael Sheen, Ed Sheeran, Benedict Cumberbatch or a politician
Camilla revealed she was referring to Jimmy Carr – one of Britain’s best known and richest comedians – and host of 8 Out Of 10 Cats
One questioned: ‘I’ve just been through Google but I can’t find an interview with a beloved British celebrity’, to which Camilla explained: ‘It never ran- he wasn’t famous enough’
Jimmy recently hit back at critics as he insisted that ‘there’s a real functionality’ to making jokes about ‘terrible’ events.
He was found himself embroiled in controversy several times over the years for making quips about 9/11 and the Holocaust, previously admitting he was ‘a dab hand at [being cancelled] now.’
But speaking to The Times in March, he insisted with comedy where it is today that ‘it feels like you can do whatever you want now’.
Jimmy admitted that his edgier jokes were ‘slightly playing with fire’, but that his ‘intention’ behind them was the most important thing, believing that they could be used as a way to ‘make sense of’ difficult topics.
He said: ‘Intention is important. With me, it’s clear what the intention of the evening is. But the way it can get reported is as if you’re shouting jokes through someone’s letterbox at 9am.
‘I subscribe to the benign violation theory — that jokes are benign violations. You take a violation, no matter how extreme, but make it benign by joking about it.
‘Jokes can be a way to make sense of stuff. Think about how we use humour in our lives when something terrible happens, never mind on stage. There is a lot of laughter around grief, death and disease. There’s a real functionality to it. It makes something OK.’
The host went on: ‘It’s slightly playing with fire, but you don’t choose your sense of humour. It chooses you. It’s like sexual taste. Some like it spicy, others prefer milder stuff. But you don’t fake a laugh.’
He added that he felt that ‘it’s slightly a golden age, at the moment, for comedy’, referencing Peter Cook’s impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960s, before the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968.
It’s not the first time Jimmy has been accused of rubbing up a This Morning presenter the wrong way. Last year, he was branded ‘rude’ by viewers after he interrupted the cooking segment (pictured with Dermot O’Leary)
