On Thursday night Jess and I went into Leicester Square to see the red carpet arrivals for the movie Valentine’s Day. The movie includes a whole list of stars, the big question was which celebrities would turn out for the premiere. We spent all afternoon waiting out the front of the Odeon cinema with hundreds of other people waiting for the guests to arrive. I had been in the UK for almost a year and still had not really seen any celebreties therefore I felt this was my best chance to see someone famous.
As we waited the carpet fitters came by and laid out the red carpet, the media began setting up their cameras, the road was blocked off, the security guards took guard and the sun went down and it began to get very cold. Rumours began flying around about who would be coming and the autograph hounds in front of sorted through their thousands of photographs to have them ready for the stars.
Ashton Kutcher and wife Demi Moore were the first to arrive and the crowd started getting very excited. Ashton started signing autographs and posing for photographs as Demi did a few quick interviews before heading inside the cinema out of the cold. Jessica Alba, star of the Fantastic Four movie, and Topher Grace, That 70’s show and Spiderman 3, where the other big names to arrive. They all went around the crowd posing for photos, signing autographs and undertaking interviews with all the television crews who were set up on the other side of the red carpet directly opposite us. The director of the film Garry Marshall who also directed Pretty Woman was also there.
Fighting the crowds every time the stars came close wasn’t much fun but luckily as I am tall and most of the fans were small teenage girls I was able to get a few photos. Jess being shorter than me was trying to hold her spot but kept getting pushed around by all the fanatical fans or autograph hounds who you could tell were just planning to sell on eBay whatever they got signed.
On Valentines Day Jess and I went for a cruise down the Thames on the Thames Clipper giving me a view of London I had not yet seen. We began our journey at Embankment then cruised down to the O2 arena at North Greenwhich before returning to Embankment. The O2 is a large white dome shaped tent with yellow spikes poking out of it. I knew it as a great place for live concerts but I realised it had a lot more to offer than just being an arena. It also houses a large number of restaurants, cinemas and museums.
The Thames cruise was fun and a little disorientating because the Thames snakes around almost in a semi circle when you get near Greenwich.
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