LL Cool J reportledy chased Gardeners’ World host Monty Don to ask for a selfie after they both appeared on Monday’s BBC Breakfast.
The US rapper, 56, real name James Todd Smith, is said to have stopped the BBC horticulturist in the corridors of the studios in Salford, where he revealed himself to be a huge fan.
The Mirror reports that presenter Nina Warhurst said she ‘overheard in the office corridor… LL Cool J & entourage telling Monty Don they are massive fans and asking for a selfie’.
The gardener, 69, who has been a regular face on UK TV since 1989, has found fame stateside in recent years after his show American Gardens debuted in 2020.
LL’s make-up artist is also said to have gushed over the chance encounter and revealed Monty had had a ‘major impact on her life’ and was someone she ‘never thought she’d meet’ – before thanking her boss for introducing them.
LL Cool J, 56, reportledy chased Gardeners’ World host Monty Don, 69, to ask for a selfie after they both appeared on Monday’s BBC Breakfast (LL pictured on the show)
The US rapper is said to have stopped the BBC horticulturist (pictured) in the corridors of the studios in Salford, where he revealed himself to be a huge fan
The gardener (L) who has been a regular face on UK TV since 1989, has found fame stateside in recent years after his show American Gardens debuted in 2020
It comes after Monty revealed the baffling reason he always wears a scarf on Gardeners’ World.
Talking to the Gardeners’ World podcast, he told Nicki Chapman why he is always seen with a very similar wardrobe, saying: ‘Because we film out of sequence, that’s the reason I always wear a scarf when filming.
‘Because if you see me in a crowd, even if I get the other things a bit wrong, if I’ve got the scarf the same, you overlook the face the shirt might have a collar or not have a collar, or might be a different shade of blue.
‘It was a trick that someone told me about 20 odd years ago, that if you have a hat, a bag or a scarf that’s what people notice.’
He also revealed the shocking moment when he was hosed down by producers on BBC set.
Monty explained: ‘We were filming and the rain was pouring down. The camera got wet so we had to stop, luckily the electronics were OK.
‘The producers said ‘we’ve started this shot, we’ve got to finish it’. So we set the camera back up, got a hose out and someone stood there and hosed me down because of the continuity.
‘Otherwise I would have gone in wet and come out dry.’
According to reports presenter Nina Warhurst said she ‘overheard in the office corridor… LL Cool J & entourage telling Monty Don they are massive fans and asking for a selfie’
LL’s make-up artist is also said to have gushed over the chance encounter and revealed Monty had had a ‘major impact on her life’
Host Nina Warhurst (pictured) overheard the unlikely meeting
Monty previously took a U-turn on his belief that homegrown vegetables are better – admitting that sometimes shop-bought veg is just as tasty.
The gardener said he has grown vegetables since he was a child and admitted that throughout his life he has ‘steadfastly adhered’ to the view that homegrown food is ‘always better’ than shop-purchased.
The TV star said the pleasure of growing his own produce, and eating it in season, will always remain ‘paramount’ – but admitted that sometimes, other people do just grow finer food.
The presenter admitted that a quarter of the produce he grows in his allotment is disposed of and questioned how often allotment-grown veg is eaten ‘with real enjoyment’ in the UK.
Writing in Gardeners’ World, Don said over the past few years his homegrown asparagus has ‘declined’ and ‘we found the locally grown asparagus to be just as good as our own’.
He said: ‘I stress that this goes against all my opinions that I have steadfastly adhered to for all my life.
‘I have blindly held to the belief that homegrown is always better than bought.’
But he clarified: ‘I am not abandoning that but modifying it a little.’
Don has grown vegetables since he was a small child and has previously spoken about the ‘luxury’ of strolling into the garden to handpick homegrown produce.
It comes after Monty revealed the baffling reason he always wears a scarf on Gardeners’ World
