Glen's Life in a nutshell

In an entirely accurate display of Glen’s Life in a nutshell, I managed to completely miss something ‘important’ yesterday.


Important?

I’ve mentioned before that I now work in a big posh media company’s building, here in the heart of London, and this week I have really seen some benefit. Currently a film company is in London making a film for release in a couple of years. The film is Salmon fishing in the Yemen, from the book of the same name by Paul Torday.

In this film will be such names as Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt of Young Victoria and Devil Wears Prada fame. Our flash building is being used as a backdrop for some of this filming as well as one of the offices up high, being converted to look like a trendy flat. So you can imagine all of the equipment and paraphernalia that is set up around the place as well as some of the restrictions as certain areas are blocked off.

On Friday I stood outside and watched for five minutes as Emily practiced walking through the revolving doors, as she had been doing for about an hour apparently. I laughed as I’d managed to do this successfully on my third try when we first moved into the building. Clearly actresses struggle a little more with doors than normal people.

On Monday I popped up to the top floor with my mate to have a sneaky look at what was going on. There, from my top celebrity spotting spot, was Ewan McGregor in a smart suit sat talking to a camera. I loved it, “Go on Obi Wan!” I shouted before quickly remembering where I was. I pointed at my friend and shook my head disgustedly as the crowd tutted in horror at him.

I realised that Emily was in there as well, and that they were in fact actually acting at that point. I was watching the movie being made. I found this quite thrilling I have to admit.

You know how sometimes you can see something quite clearly but you know full well that your crappy phone camera will not be able to show this properly. This was one of those times. I knew my camera would not get a good photo at all, but decided I had to try. So I got my trusty Nokia 6300 out, and concentrated.

I stood looking at my phone, trying to line up the shot without A: looking like I was taking a photo, and B: being able to actually see the people on the small screen of the phone. I spent a couple of minutes lining the shots up and then, on completion, patted myself on the back and went back to my office.

I walked in smiling to myself knowing that not only had I seen these guys at work, but I already knew that I would have taken an amusingly rubbish picture of the action to share with you lot. When I put the photo onto my laptop I could not have been more gutted if Jennifer Anniston had been in the office while I’d been away demanding to have sex with as many stumpy, balding, married men as possible.

If you zoom into the world’s worst ever paparazzi photo you will see that while I was busy aiming my Nokia, Emily was popping her boobs out. Oh don’t get excited, you can’t see anything – the point is that neither did I! I was stood right there, had I been looking I would have seen the lot. I wasn’t looking though, all I have to show for it is a photo that even the seediest celebrity stalking crap mag in the world wouldn’t pay twenty pence for.

So you might as well have it for free, go on – take it, it’s yours. I strongly doubt that even a thirteen year old boy that has just come back from hospital, where they finally removed the plaster casts from his hands after six months waiting, could successfully use this photo, so I’m not sure it will do you any good.

In the photo you can clearly see (actually you can’t clearly see this at all, that’s why I’m explaining it) Ewan McGregor’s suited back to the camera while Emily blunt flashes either completely topless, or at least her bra covered boobs at him; something that I completely managed to miss seeing. You do have to zoom in quite substantially to see this.

Typical!

I tell you what Breeze Van Santo wouldn’t have missed it; he would have seen it and the wink that Emily would have no doubt thrown his way too, but that is Breeze's life, and this is Glen's life.

Who is Breeze Van Santo?



Later…

Emily Blunt topless with Ewan McGregor