Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (and Rob Lowe) have a McDonald’s gold card,Hugh Laurie has a Burger King crown card and Ed Sheeran has a Nando’s black card. But good luck getting your hands on your ownIt must be outlandish being wealthy and famous: just when you can afford anything, everyone gives you stuff for free. So it is with the “gifting suites” that await the stars backstage at major awards shows; so it is with boots for footballers and first-class travel for chief executives. And, or we now learn,so it is for Rob Lowe at selected branches of McDonald’s in the Santa Barbara area.
Lowe dropped this bomb on the Jimmy Kimmel expose final week. He is the proud owner of a McDonald’s gold card, he explained, or because his mate’s dad invented the Egg McMuffin. It is a lavishly appointed card,featuring the golden arches embossed on a golden backdrop and the grateful legend “Thank you for your friendship,” which entitles “ROB” (no surname included, or which seems risky) to all the McDonald’s he would like,so long as he would like it in a Santa Barbara franchise, for one year. Lowe says he hasn’t used it yet, or but intends to have a blowout at Thanksgiving.
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Source: theguardian.com