Rylan Clark said he was on a date as a teenager when the person he was on the date with suddenly ran away from him and his friends in the middle of a tube station
Rylan Clark has revealed the details of an awkward date in which the person he was going out with ran away.
TV and radio presenter Rylan, 36, was speaking to writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf on his BBC podcast How To Be in Love when he started discussing dates that had gone wrong.
Starting with his own experience, he said that as a teenager he had been on a night out with a friend in Central London when they spotted someone who he fancied.
Eventually getting their attention, the gentleman agreed to go on a date with Rylan that evening, before running away from him and his friends in the middle of a tube station.
Rylan said: “Do you remember there was a bar, it’s still there, Q bar. I remember there was a guy there that worked on the door, I must have been about 15/16 and I was so infatuated by him.
“And me and my friend Katy we would put on a blazer because it made us look older, she would hold a cigarette unlit because it made us look older and we’d continue just to walk past and back to get this guy’s attention.
“And back then there was a website that everyone used called Face Party, it was pre-Facebook, everyone had a profile, it was a crazy website, but it was great and you used to message people on there. I walked past and we decided ‘We’ll ask him if he’s got a light for the cigarette’.”
As the conversation progressed, Rylan’s friend Katy asked the unnamed man if he was on the site, to which he replied he was, before he and Rylan got chatting on the site.
It was after a date was organised that things started to go awry for the star. Rylan explained: “It was the most crazy thing, I don’t know how this happened. He was like ‘Meet me at Leicester Square station and we’ll go to Green Park’.
“And I was like ‘Ok cool, but my friends are going to come because we’re all going out tonight’ because we’re all going out tonight. He was like ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s fine’.
“It was very strange because we went through to the station and he just started running, to the train, like running down the escalator.
“He was running and so I then was like ‘This is normal’ so I started running. My friend was like ‘Why are you running?’. We’ve all started running.”
Despite the man’s initial attempt at running away, they managed to get on the same train as him. When it stopped at Green Park he started running again.
Rylan added: “Then the doors open at Green Park and he runs off the train so then me and my friends are running and they’re like ‘What’s going on?’ I’m like ‘It’s fine’, trying to make out like this is normal, its what people do on dates. He ran away, he just ran.”