Louis Theroux has recalled how he once met anonymous street artist Bansky at a QPR football match.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces in the cover of darkness and his identity is a closely guarded secret.
Louis claimed on former footie player Peter Crouch’s podcast how he is one of the “only people who has ever met Banksy” after meeting him at the footie match in 2001 when his work was unknown.
He said he rubbed shoulders with the artist when he went to watch Crouch play for QPR from a viewing box and told how they “bonded” over the footballer.
Louis Theroux told how he once met anonymous street artist Bansky (Image: PA Wire/PA Images)
Louis said Bansky, whose most recognisable piece is the Girl with the Red Balloon, even gave him a booklet of some of his art and said it “looked quite good”.
Speaking on That Peter Crouch Podcast on BBC Sounds, the documentary film maker said: “One of the other people in the box was a young artist. He was a little bit sheepish and wasn’t terribly outgoing. I said, ‘Alright, what do you do?”.
“He said, ‘I’m a street artist’. He gave me a little booklet of some of his art and it looked quite good. I kind of made awkward chit chat and I asked his name and he said, ‘Banksy’.
Louis said he rubbed shoulders with the artist when he went to watch Peter Crouch play for QPR (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Ama)
“Fast forward a year and people kept asking me, ‘Have you heard of Banksy? Nobody knows who he is’. I was like, ‘Banksy? Yeah I know who he is, we went to QPR together’!”
“I’m one of the only people who has ever met Banksy…and we bonded over Peter Crouch.”
One of Banksy’s most recognisable pieces is the Girl with the Red Balloon (Image: Getty)
A new Banksy artwork went on display at Southhampton General Hospitak last month, which pays tribute to heroic NHS staff helping to tackle the coronavirus crisis.
Called Game Changer, the piece has appeared at Southampton General Hospital and shows a boy dressed in dungarees playing with a nurse superhero toy.
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