Bill Nighy's Pants

In his 60 second interview in today's Metro, Bill Nighy confesses that he once discarded a pair of pants in Folkestone:

Were you a Hemingway fan?
I still am. I read somewhere that Ernest Hemingway didn't wear underwear, so, on my way to Paris, I abandoned mine in the English Channel at Folkestone, the more to be like him. I loved his short stories, They blew my mind. He was a very radical writer. People pooh-poohed him as soon as he was dead, like they do with everybody because in order to embolden themselves, they diminish somebody else. He remains one of the great writers.

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