Tom Hardy on his test

What a good egg he is! Hollywood megastar Tom Hardy gave fans a topnotch selfie while out on his motorcycle test in Nuneaton a couple of weeks ago.

Joanne Vowles was shocked when she spotted Hardy walking around a petrol station. The actor was dressed in a high-vis jacket with L-plates attached to his bike in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on Saturday afternoon.

Vowles, a teaching assistant, said: “I looked over at this motorcyclist who had just taken his helmet off. I thought he looked a bit dishy and then I realised it was Tom Hardy. He smiled at me and I asked if it was him and he said ‘yes’ and the next thing I asked was ‘well, what on earth are you doing here then?’

“He is the last person you expect to see in a small town in the Midlands but he told me he was taking his motorbike test. I asked him what for and he told me it was a secret.”

The Mad Max and Batman star posed with Joanne and her friends while wearing his bike test high-vis. Joanne said: “I really hope he passed.”

Well Joanne, he did. The Two Wheels Motorcycle School in Nuneaton added the big movie star to their list of motorcycle students getting through the legal stuff.