Jack Whitehall on his love affair with Manchester - from mooning on the Manchester Eye, having his front door stolen in Fallowfield and being ‘chased out’ of Oldham biker pub
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWhen Jack Whitehall had his front door stolen in Fallowfield, he did what any self-respecting student would do. He taped a bin bag to the door frame and carried on as normal.
Similarly, when a lightbulb went, he and his housemates just resigned themselves to that room being ‘just for the daytime’. One of the UK’s most well-known stand-up comedians has much more in common with his character JP, the feckless posh boy from Fresh Meat - the Channel 4 student sitcom penned by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong - than you might think.
He says that when his landlord came to get the keys back from them as they were about to move out, he actually ‘started welling up’ on seeing what they’d done to the place. “It was disrespectful,” he admits. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community A couple of weeks later, one of his housemates would get a call from the aforementioned landlord, asking why there was rope, bloodstains and what looked like a crime scene in the basement. “We’d had a murder mystery party,” he says. “He asked ‘is there anything you want to tell me?
Has anything gone on in the house?’ which was pretty cool. His first instinct wasn’t to just rat us out to the police.” Whitehall, who these days appears in Hollywood movies with The Rock and Emily Blunt, spent many years living in Manchester.
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