“Darling, my face is my passport.”
Whether or not Vivien Leigh so replied to a jaded customs officer’s demand for documentation, it’s hard to imagine how anyone could have failed to recognize the visage of one of the stage and screen’s brightest stars.
A cyclist out for a trining ride last week could’ve identified with her. Authorities stopped him from proceeding along a road near Saint Raphael, along the French Mediterranean coast.
Millions of people witnessed the incident during a live news broadcast on France 2. The road had just been closed due to the risk of forest fires that have engulfed other Mediterranean locales.
"Ce randonneur à vélo"
— Johan Rouquet (@JohanRouquet) August 11, 2021
Euh c'est juste Chris Froome qui a gagné 4 fois le Tour de France sur la même chaîne. @France2tv
Poke @DansLaMusette pic.twitter.com/SVZS0mGEhv
What the presenter, veteran journalist Johan Rouquet, didn’t realize was that “ce randonneur à velo” wasn’t just any old bike tripper. Rather, the fellow who’d just been turned back was none other than four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome.
Sometimes you just can’t be famous enough!
