Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Vine: Sorry, Paxo, it was me in the loo
JEREMY Vine says being mistaken for Jeremy Paxman helped him get over one of his most embarrassing moments.
The Radio 2 host was sitting on a train toilet when the door sprang open and he was seen by two women at a table.
He said he stretched across to press the close button “but it closed with excruciating slowness”.
Vine said: “I was thinking how do I walk past those women without dying of embarrassment?
“The only positive is that I heard one of them whisper, ‘Wasn’t that Jeremy Paxman?’”
Vine also told Cheltenham Literature Festival he feared he needed surgery for a groin pain – then realised pants he got as a gift were too tight. ANGELINA Jolie offered to act as a “honeytrap” in a secret plan to help snare a notorious African warlord, leaked documents claim.
The actress was said to have hatched a plot with the International Criminal Court’s thenchief prosecutor to help catch guerilla leader Joseph Kony, who was the focus of a Us-led capture-or-kill mission.
Leaked emails from Luis Moreno Ocampo suggest the campaigning actress was prepared to act as bait to draw out Africa’s most wanted man.
Jolie “has the idea to invite Kony to dinner and arrest him”, wrote the Argentinian lawyer who was ICC chief prosecutor in The Hague for nine years.
He hoped Jolie’s now- estranged husband Brad Pitt, 53, would also be part of the plan, with the pair embedded in Uganda with US troops near to a Kony stronghold.
Moreno Ocampo, 65, wrote to Jolie in 2012: “Apparently you can be embedded with the special forces that are chasing Kony. Can Brad go with you?”
Jolie replied: “Brad is being supportive. Let’s discuss logistics. Much love Xxx.”
In another leaked email, the lawyer wrote: “She loves to arrest Kony. She is ready. Probably Brad will go also.”
The documents do not reveal what stopped the plan going ahead. Moreno Ocampo is said to have also tried to get George Clooney and Sean Penn on board with other projects.
He claimed he had been the victim of a cyber attack, from which “out-of-context information” had been leaked by those opposed to his work.
Jolie did not respond to requests for a comment.