Jack Dee “nearly died” after sleeping on a heart-shaped waterbed when a hotel upgraded him to the honeymoon suite.
The comedian, 63, revealed he was unaware the bed needed to be heated before use and said that “rigor mortis” set in from lying on the freezing water. Speaking on his ‘Oh My Dog!’ podcast, Jack explained why upgrades often don’t live up to the hype.
He said: “I checked into a hotel and they said, ‘Oh, we’ve upgraded you.’ My heart always sinks when they say that, because in a hotel, I just want a regular room.
“Usually an upgrade means there’s a spiral staircase to the loo or something, and they think you’re going to be pleased with it. And I’m not.
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“I just want everything to be where it always is in a hotel room, right? So I’m already annoyed that they’ve upgraded me. I go in. They’ve given me the honeymoon suite. It was so tacky. It was a heart-shaped waterbed. That’s sad enough, but sleeping there on your own?”
Despite his reservations, he decided to grin and bear it for a night. He added: “I thought, there’s nothing for it, I had to go to bed. But I didn’t realise, you’re meant to turn the water bed on so that you heat the water up a bit. But it was a cold night and the water was freezing.
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“I went to sleep on it because I was tired. And then when I woke up about two o’clock in the morning, the whole of my back was numb with cold. I actually thought I’d just died in the night or something, or, you know, I had partial rigor mortis from it.
“I got all the bedding and slept on the floor for the rest of the night. So don’t get a water bed. Well, if you do, turn it on before you get in, they’re meant to warm up.”
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