James Acaster discovered associate left him for ‘Mr Bean’ regardless of 25-year age hole

James Acaster beforehand joked he was a ‘goddam saint’ for sitting on the actual fact his spouse ‘left him for Mr Bean’, as he opened up on how he discovered about their relationship.

Acaster has drawn headlines after a latest look on Saturday Kitchen went viral as he destroyed the set. Acaster, finest recognized for the

podcast Off Menu, went viral after his comedic overreaction to shedding a public ballot to his co-host Ed Gamble, destroying the set within the course of.

Previous to this, many who aren’t followers of Off Menu or Taskmaster could know Acaster for one more way more unlucky manner, for having revealed in a stand-up particular that went equally viral on social media that his girlfriend had ‘left him for Mr Bean’.

Acaster made the connection revelation in his 2019 stand-up TV particular Chilly Lasagne Hate Myself 1999.

Throughout this, Acaster spoke about earlier failed relationships he had, together with alluding to a girlfriend he dated in 2013, Louise Ford.

The comic revealed that Ford on the time had been solid in a West Finish play and that, whereas he was comfortable for her, he felt that they had change into extra distant from one another.



Acaster said that, as a result of his poor psychological well being, he started ‘plucking issues out of skinny air’, together with that she had fallen in love with Rowan Atkinson whom she was starring within the play with.

The comic stated that he didn’t discover out till ‘a yr later’, saying: “I discovered a yr after we cut up up. I opened the newspaper and there’s a photograph of the 2 of them strolling arm in arm down the road collectively and a full story about how they have been a pair now.

“It was the primary time in my entire life once I’ve found why somebody left me with none interval of mourning in any way, simply instantly gone ‘properly that’s f*cking hilarious’.”

Regardless of with the ability to recognise the humour in his girlfriend leaving him for Mr Bean actor Atkinson, who was over 25 years older than her, he said that he had sat on the information for six years partially because of the truth they’re a ‘nice couple’, and he and Ford weren’t.

Acaster reiterated in his routine that it was not supposed to be construed as him criticising both Atkinson or Ford; nonetheless, he said: “I am a goddam saint to have stored this within the again pocket so lengthy.

“It is my job to say issues which are humorous, and the funniest factor that is ever occurred to anybody occurred to me, and I put it on the again burner out of respect.

“Till you get left for Mr Bean, you do not realise how steadily he pops up.

“There is a store two streets from my home that sells masks of his face.

“There’s nowhere the place I will go that he isn’t there.”

He said that as a result of Atkinson’s success, it’s unattainable to not discover his billboards and face all over the place.

That is mockingly very true within the week Acaster has gone viral, with Atkinson’s new Netflix sequence Man vs Child releasing later this week.