He drove an Aston Martin as James Bond, but fast cars left Sir Roger Moore shaken, not stirred, says Eamonn Holmes.
Roger, who died in 2017, aged 89, confessed his secret fear to the TV presenter as they raced through the streets of Belfast to the airport, telling him: “I hate fast cars.”
They had appeared on a Belfast TV show before making the dash to catch a flight to London.
Eamonn, 61, said: “The last flight was 9:50pm. Honestly, we literally finished at 9:30pm in the TV studio.
“To get us there, the BBC phoned ahead and said, ‘Look, we’ve got James Bond coming in a bit’.”
They had four police motorbike outriders as their car sped through Belfast to the airport.
Eamonn said: “Roger Moore was holding on to the seat. He said, ‘Oh, I don’t like this. All this is too fast for me’. I said, ‘But you are James Bond’. He said, ‘Oh, I hate fast cars’. I started laughing.”
Roger made seven Bond films, first appearing as 007 in Live and Let Die in 1973. His most famous Bond car was the Lotus Esprit S1, which turned into a submarine when he drove into the sea in The Spy Who Loved Me.
In 2014, Roger revealed he had a tiny Smart car to get around his adopted home town of Monaco.
He said: “It is absolutely wonderful.”
