Strictly star reveals shock moment he was punched on plane in row with fellow passenger over seat

STRICTLY host Josh Widdicombe was at the centre of a mid-air showdown with an angry passenger. It was all because the comedian put his shoe on his assailant’s chair while waiting for the loo on a plane. Josh Widdicombe was at the centre of a mid-air showdown with an angry passenger Strictly host Josh says a furious man hit him in the back Credit: BBC Dad-of-two Josh says the furious man hit him in the back after not accepting the star’s apology during the embarrassing altercation flying from Greece back to the UK after a family holiday. Talking on the Parenting Hell podcast, he said: “It was on the plane back from Greece I went up to the toilet at the front of the queue and you know the front seats, there was someone at the window seat and then there were two empty seats so I perched on the arm of the end empty seat and I looked down and my shoe was undone so I put it up on the corner of the seat, fine, I made a mistake. Sign up for the TV newsletter Thank you! “The woman at the end said ‘excuse me, that’s my husband’s seat’, so I was like fine, sorry I’ve made my mistake, put my foot down. “She doesn’t expect the apology, she tries to continue telling me off. Read more on Josh Widdecombe “So I kind of turned back and queued up. The guy comes out of the loo. “He sits down and then he goes past me and whacks me in the back as he goes past me. “You know like Richard Ashcroft in that Urban Hymns video, like a footballer off the ball and then he goes past me and goes ‘did you put your foot on my seat?’ “He was getting napkins to wipe down his seat. Most read in TV “It gets worse, I could only apologise what else could I do. “He sits down and the air steward has to check he’s alright and he comes back and is like ‘there’s one on every flight isn’t there?’ “The air steward starts to confide me in, so I start to dig into this and start laughing away with the air steward, I really go for it with the charming chat with the air stewards. “At that point a woman comes up and says she’s a fan of me and I think ‘this is glorious’. “Then later on the flight I go to the toilet again and the woman is still staring at me, even as I walk down the aisle she cranes her neck to evil me, I’ve said sorry by this point. “An hour later I hear the stewards saying ‘he’s still cleaning the seat with his napkin’, it’s been an hour! “He might be germophobic I suppose. “Honestly at the end I was worried he was going to confront me, it was weird.” 1 comment1