Ricky Gervais recalls the nervewracking time he first met David Bowie
David Bowie, and how the late star tracked him down “like the FBI” afterwards.The pair shared a strong relationship, with Bowie appearing on Gervais’ show Extras, and Gervais returning the favour with a stand-up set at the Bowie-curated High Line festival in New York in 2007.“I was invited to a special performance by Bowie at BBC TV Centre,” Gervais remembered of the pair’s first meeting in a new interview with The Telegraph.“In the green room afterwards, then director-general Greg Dyke bounced over to me and Jane [Fallon, Gervais’ partner] and said, ‘You’re a big Bowie fan, aren’t you? Do you want to meet him?’“I said, ‘Oh, I don’t want to pester him’. He said, ‘No, come on’.