Eva Longoria told comic Jack Whitehall she had an incredible time at a family-owned Italian restaurant – which turned out to be Pizza Express.
He said The Desperate Housewives star, 46, told him it was “the best pasta I have ever had anywhere in the world”.
Jack revealed while they were filming BBC comedy series Decline And Fall in 2016 she was struggling to find a good eatery in town.
But Eva burst onto the set in Cardiff one day and claimed she found a brilliant family owned Italian place, only to reveal she had eaten at the popular high street chain.
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Jack, 33, told the Out To Lunch podcast: “She thought she was going to stay in some lovely swanky London hotel, have dinners out with all of her friends… she arrived in Cardiff and got a rude awakening.
“She was great and really entered into the spirit of things but couldn’t find a restaurant that was quite up to the standards of Beverly Hills in Cardiff until one day she came on to set and she said, ‘Oh my God, I found it, I found the most incredible little Italian last night, the owner, I think it’s family owned, he was so charming and I had the best pasta I have ever had anywhere in the world.
“’It’s called… Pizza Express.’ I promise you, she said Pizza Express.
“She’d been in a little Pizza Express in Cardiff and thought she’d found this incredible, authentic Italian,” he insisted.
The actor also revealed he made a fool of himself with school pals after telling them he had landed the part of Harry Potter in the mega movie franchise.
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Jack revealed he went to an open casting and was so cocky he told mates it was “just a formality” that he would get the lead part.
But he admitted he was useless and was ditched by the casting crew before the part famously went to award-winning actor Daniel Radcliffe.
Jack added: “Absolutely flunked it. I don’t think I’d read the whole book. I wasn’t a very good actor when I was a child. Very awkward. Didn’t get the part.
“I’d gone big, of course,” he added. “I was like ‘it’s just a formality’.”
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