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Stephen Merchant jokes that protesters ‘mistook lorry for a racist statue’
As The Outlaws prepares to begin on BBC One on Monday, Stephen Merchant has spoken publicly for the first time about the truck carrying costumes from the show that crashed into the Floating Harbour.
“I can now confirm that it is one of our 50ft costume trucks that has somehow fallen into Bristol harbour, and that’s just containing my shoes,” Merchant said on The Last Leg on Channel 4, which was recorded on the same day as the incident near Lloyds Amphitheatre happened.
“I am genuinely not entirely sure how it wound up in Bristol harbour. We think it might have been some protesters who mistook it for a racist statue.
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“I think it is more likely to be that because of the HGV driver shortage we had to use some local drivers and the only one we could get available to drive that was my nan.
“I’m beginning to regret not paying for the cataract surgery in both eyes.
“We thought she’d be in tune as she’s a demon on the old mobility scooter.”
Main photo: Martin Booth
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