Ah, the glamma of air travel! By now you'll be aware that French actor Gérard Depardieu's request to urinate as his CityJet flight was taxiing was refused this week, sparking a complex train of events that would ultimately lead to his ejection from the craft and a tweet from the airline reading: "As you may have seen, we are busy mopping the floor of one of our planes ... "
Lost in Showbiz could never stay angry with the inimitable Gerard for very long, given his life story is a slightly more lunatic version of that Dr Evil speech in Austin Powers. (You know the one: "My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanise; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark ... ") As for City Jet's official slogan – "the end to uncivilised travel" – that would now appear to need tweaking for trading standards purposes. How about "Many of our passengers are housebroken"?
