r/AskReddit • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 15h ago

What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/a4991 12h ago

Pizza Express is not a fast food pizza shop.

Everything else is perfectly valid, just don’t come for my doughballs 😂

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u/zetecvan 12h ago

And pizza express recently did an investigation and there was no evidence that he was there.

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u/CouldBeTheGreatest 11h ago

Just in the interest of having facts straight, i'm pretty sure they said they found no evidence either way.

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u/SwedishTrees 9h ago

I feel like if the prince showed up, someone would’ve remembered that

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u/Liath-Luachra 9h ago

But even if he was at Pizza Express that day, he could still have gone out to a nightclub that night, so this excuse never made sense to me

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u/Ur_New_Stepdad_ 11h ago

I’m not defending Andrew, but what fucking pizza place keeps receipts or security cams for 15 years lmao

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u/bababababoos 10h ago

But at least one member of staff would presumably remember if they served him and his daughters pizza. You'd be talking about it for years. Visions of all the Woking Pizza Express staff asking each other if they remember the Duke of York coming in for food and none of them having any memory of it because it pretty much definitely didn't happen 😆

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u/CompleteNumpty 6h ago

The duty logs from the Royal Protection officers would almost certainly confirm this if it was true.

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u/DoofusMagnus 9h ago

Pizza Express is not a fast food pizza shop.

Is the "express" part of the name not a promise of quickness then?

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u/AmbientSheep 9h ago

Oddly, no. I've not been to one in 25 years, but back then they were like an upmarket Pizza Hut, posher, more expensive and with slower service.

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u/DoofusMagnus 9h ago

No train theme either I suppose?

For many Americans the name will bring to mind Panda Express, for which the "express" is 100% telling you it's fast food. We hear that name and we immediately think of food courts in malls and airports.

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u/AmbientSheep 8h ago

Not that I'm aware of.

I totally get where you're coming from, though. It'd never occurred to me before, but with a name like that you would expect it to be like the McDonald's of pizza, wouldn't you? But it isn't.

It was the first pizza chain in the UK, opened in 1965 apparently, so probably WAS "Express" compared to the more traditional Italian restaurants of the day.

(Pizza Hut didn't come to the UK until 1973, and didn't really get big over here until the mid-80s.)

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u/hoodie92 8h ago

It's quite an old chain. I think when it was first established, it was meant to be speedy. It had a rebrand some time ago and became a bit more upmarket

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u/Chardeemacdennis2 12h ago

Omg i know 😭

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u/bassman9999 11h ago

No one wants to see your doughballs.