“Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever done a wee next to?” – 18 flushed responses
The internet has a reputation for subtly encouraging people to overshare, with the culture of posting personal woes on Facebook, every meal on Instagram, and multiple selfies on – well – everywhere. Sometimes, the oversharing is less subtle, like this question from writer Rick Burin on Twitter:
Who's the most famous person you've ever done a wee next to?
— Rick Burin (@rickburin) January 8, 2019
Yes, well, erm …was Rick prepared to put his money where his mouth is? Yes. Yes, he was.
Think mine is Andrew Scott, in the interval of Angels in America at the National. I hadn't heard of the play until I saw him do a scene from it in NT at 50: the glorious highlight of a rubbish show, and was disappointed he wouldn't be in this version, so this compensated.
— Rick Burin (@rickburin) January 8, 2019
As luck would have it, his question opened the metaphorical floodgates. Here are just 18 – plus bonuses – of the more than 600 replies.
1. Huge, if true …
Did a wee between Albert Finney and Frank Finlay once – led to one of them calling me a c***. It was richly deserved. I was very drunk and singing 'Finney to left of me, Finlay to the right, here I am Stuck in the Widdle with you"
— El Hijo Del Santo (@iamsammypanther) January 8, 2019
2. This story was a bit of a Blur
Daman Albarn.
It gave me a sense of enormous well-being.— Rob Dicken (@1970RobD) January 8, 2019
3. It’s like peeing near the Queen
Was once in the ladies loo at the Royal Opera House at the same time as Helen Mirren.
— Tits McGee (@Scientits) January 8, 2019
4. It’s like peeing near the Queen, part 2
Prince Edward.
— E. Harvie Ward (@DungsauPing) January 8, 2019
5. It’s like – you get where I’m going with this
My big moment has arrived to tell of pissing next to Brian May on 2 separate occasions months apart.
— Ben Grimm (@BenGrimm_Thing) January 8, 2019
I see a little silhouette-oh of a willy
— Rick Burin (@rickburin) January 8, 2019
6. What’s the protocol on tagging your celebrity urinal buddy?
@MrEdByrne – Moo Bar Carlisle.
— Taff (@MacTaffish) January 8, 2019
7. Suspiciously specific
Gok Wan, Spaniard's Inn, noon on the 11th of February 2013.
— Digby Warde-Aldam (@DigbyWA) January 8, 2019
8. Some encounters were rasher than others
We were never fully adjacent but I once did the whole he goes left / I go right / after you / no after you shimmy with Kevin Bacon in a crowded gents. Six degrees of urination!
— Tom Huddleston (@TomHuddleston_) January 8, 2019
9. Some strayed from the remit
A cabinet minister did a loud parp in a cubicle beside me but I won’t name her cos ah’m no toilet grass.
— Ashley Davies (@MsAshleyDavies) January 8, 2019
10. This probably doesn’t count, but just look at that frieze
B*Witched. I think. pic.twitter.com/2UmsY9qOAy
— Baz McAlister (@bazmcalister) January 8, 2019
11. Even bona fide movie stars have to pee
We weren’t in adjacent cubicles, but Lauren Bacall at The Ivy.
— Alanna Lauder (@SouthLondonGirl) January 8, 2019
