Eighteen years after Alan Partridge desperately pitched the idea to a BBC executive in I’m Alan Partridge, Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank is finally a reality, after booking website Hostelworld created a mock trailer starring Eubank himself.
It’s a remarkable turn of events given that, just last week, Eubank was expressing confusion over why Twitter users kept on asking him about youth hostels. His befuddled Twitter responses went viral and attracted widespread media attention.
Now, though, Eubank seems to be firmly in on the joke. In the Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank trailer, the former WBO Middleweight World Champion checks himself into a youth hostel and makes use of its amenities. He wrestles with the Wi-Fi (“all lower case?”) and regales fellow guests with his motivational spiel: “The key thing in life is to be humble. Just be little: that way you have nowhere to fall”.
“Up until recently, I had absolutely no idea why people used to mention hostels to me and smile. It was truly an unsolved mystery to me,” Eubank said in a statement.
“Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank has now become a reality and finally, albeit a little embarrassed and ashamed, I’m in on the joke 18 years after Alan Partridge pitched it!”
