Jason Manford was involved in a "terrifying" 80-mile car chase.
The 38-year-old comedian was travelling back from a concert on Hayling Island, near Portsmouth, southern England, on Saturday evening (17.08.19) when he claims a guy blocked the road and asked to borrow some jump leads, but when his driver said no and drove past the motorist proceeded to chase them.
Jason said: "He’s shouting out the window, ‘Why didn’t you have any jump leads?’ and ‘What are you doing here, on the island? This is my town’. I thought, ‘We’re going to wake up in a wicker man here’.
"He follows us, driving dangerously, undercutting us on the A3, getting in front and braking suddenly.
"He was coming up behind us, flashing us, beeping us, shouting, and swerving in the road in front of us. It was a bit terrifying."
Jason – who is soon to star in the BBC’s new sitcom ‘Scarborough’ – felt like he was in a Sir Alfred Hitchcock movie when he and his driver appeared to lose the guy, only for him to reappear again.
But they managed to lose him for good when they drove to Sutton Police Station in Surrey, south east England.
A Met Police spokesman told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "We did an area search and located the vehicle, locked, behind the station.
"The man [Jason] did not want to make a crime report."
Jason admitted the ordeal was "one of the weirdest experiences" he has ever had after the guy followed him for nearly 80 miles.
Jason Manford in ‘terrifying’ 80-mile car chase
