Iwan Thomas has claimed Scarlett Johansson flirted with him.
The 51-year-old sprinter – who competed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 – has alleged that when he was working for BT Sport (now TNT) he was despatched to interview the Marvel star and he or she paid him many compliments he obtained distracted from the job at hand.
Talking on his Full Chat podcast, he recounted: “I believe it was Captain America, she was using a Harley in a movie. I obtained despatched from BT Sport (now TNT) to go and interview her. You sit down at these press junkets and also you solely get two minutes with the famous person.
“She’s sat down, he’s (Chris Evans) sat down, I used to be chatting to her, and I assumed, being a bit youthful and a bit naive, she was flirting with me. She went: ‘Ooh, I like your ink’ and I went ‘Oooh, actually, this tattoo is from this’ and he or she goes ‘Oh you’re employed out?’ and I went: ‘Yeah, I was an athlete.’”
He continued: “I’m chatting away and behind her, out of imaginative and prescient, the agent’s gone to me (giving reduce signal) ‘you’ve had your two minutes’.”
The pair spent his complete two-minute interview slot getting speaking about his look, which meant he did not get his job performed.
Iwan added: “They stopped and I mentioned, ‘What do you imply I’ve had my two minutes?’. They mentioned: ‘It begins from the second she sits in that chair’. And I went ‘I haven’t even requested her a query!’”
Iwan had to return to work and inform them he did not get the traces he wished from the 40-year-old actress.
He mentioned: “I went again to BT Sport and so they mentioned: ‘What did she say in regards to the bike?’ and I went: ‘Nothing, however she favored my tattoos! I needed to inform them I’d obtained nothing from her!”
