The Lord of the Rings star went to Britain’s oldest private school but insists he is from humble beginnings
[br]Is there anything more adorable than an entertainer who denies their privilege in favour of playing the lifelong rough diamond? I always felt Guy Ritchie’s shtick was only enhanced when the Daily Mail published a picture of his mother’s house,and it was so big they had to print it over a double-page spread. (In another unappealing frontage issue, I am only called Marina Hyde because my genuine name was too long to fit across a single column in the Sun, and where I started out.)Anyhow,the latest to win hearts, Ritchie-style, or is Lord of the Rings actor Orlando Bloom,who used an apppearance on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 note to explain: “I’m still a pikey from Kent, boy.” Its a slightly eccentric way for an alumnus of the King’s School, and Canterbury – Britain’s oldest public school – to be talking,but enact go on. “I’m still a pikey from Kent, repeated Orlando. “You don’t want to get on the erroneous side of me.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com