Noel Fielding was once stopped by police while wearing Courtney Love’s pyjamas: “Have you escaped from a mental home?”
Noel Fielding has revealed that he was once stopped by police while he was wearing a pair of Courtney Love’s pyjamas.
The former Mighty Boosh star and current host of The Great British Bake Off tells the story in an upcoming episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, a preview clip of which you can watch above.
With Love serving as a panellist on the other team on the episode, Fielding says: “I was staying at your house, it was the day after New Year’s Day, and you gave me a pair of pyjamas, and you said, ‘Go to Hamburger Hamlet’.
“I walked there in the pyjamas, and the police stopped me and said, ‘Have you escaped from a mental home?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m staying with Courtney Love’, and they said, ‘Oh, OK, course you are(!)’.”
In the clip, Love also reveals that she is a fan of pub quizzes, and recalls the feeling of winning one being better than “what I imagine winning an Oscar is like”.
Fielding has also recently reflected on his “partying” days with Love in the ‘00s. “I took partying to its logical conclusion,” he said. “When you’ve been partying with Kate Moss and Courtney Love, you’ve gone as far as you can go. A few friends ended up in rehab. I was sick of partying anyway and lucky enough to have my family at the right time [he has two daughters with wife Lliana Bird]. It was like: ‘This is what I was looking for!’”
It comes after he previously said Pete Doherty once left a top hat filled with kittens outside his hotel door during his partying days.
The 32nd season of Never Mind The Buzzcocks premieres on Sky Max and NOW on Wednesday, October 16 at 9pm. The new series sees Fielding return as team captain opposite Daisy May Cooper, with Greg Davies hosting.
Gossip singer Beth Ditto, Spice Girl Mel B and Little Mix’s Perrie will also be making an appearance on the show.
The series originally aired on BBC Two and ran from 1996 until 2015. It was rebooted by Sky in 2021.
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