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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET HAS revealed that he was saddled with a £65 (€77) fine for riding a Lime e-bike on the red carpet for the UK premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.
After hiring the e-bike in London and riding it across the red carpet at the premiere on Tuesday, Chalamet received the fine after the event for “incorrectly parking the bike”.
Lime has designated parking zones for the bikes once riders are finished using them.
Although, these charges normally amount to between £10 and £20, the bike rental company were clearly not satisfied with one of their saddles simply sharing the lime-light with Chalamet, and the hefty fine was issued.
“There were lots of traffic jams and it was quicker by bike,” Chalamet said during an appearance on the French talk show, Quotidien to promote the biopic.
“There was a traffic jam and I actually wasn’t allowed to park there, and I got a £65 fine.”
“It was horrible, because it was actually kind of an advert for them [Lime],” Chalamet added.
Anyone following the A Complete Unknown press tour has been treated to the endlessly entertaining Timothée Chalamet show, including recreating some of Dylan’s iconic looks on the red carpets.
The Lime e-bike fine is the latest stunt in Chalamet’s bizarro press tour, which has been packed with SNL appearances and American football commentating.
The 29-year-old French-American actor has received rave reviews for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s biopic, which charts Dylan’s controversial switch from acoustic to electric in the mid-60s.
He’s already a shoo-in for the Oscars, having picked up nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs in recent months.
The film, which premieres in Ireland on Friday, also features fellow American star Elle Fanning, who plays love interest Sylvie Russo.
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And this is news how?
@Trump24: Person in public eye does something unusual or notable, has brush with law ….
@Trump24: you could literally say that for anything,
@Trump24: Needy troll
@Trump24: it’s published on a news site to generate interest. Comments and the like. You justified it’s presence with your comment.
@Brendan O’Brien: Incorrect not newsworthy in the slightest just tabloid garbage
@Trump24: You get to decide what’s newsworthy now?
@Trump24: You got your attention for today, Troll.
@Brendan O’Brien: Yes more so than you BOB
@Jack Hayes: Nice to meet you troll
@Trump24: More than an actual news site?
@Trump24: e bike
@Trump24: Fake news, yeah?
In all fairness it does seem pretty silly and shortsighted of Lime to issue a miserable fine, after receiving hundreds of thousands of Euros worth of free product placement and advertising, that they couldn’t have hoped to achieve otherwise…
@Dvsespaña: and to more than triple their usual fine.
This behaviour from them means that, if I ever decided I wanted to rent an e bike.. it certainly wouldn’t be from them.
@Dvsespaña: but it looks much more interesting for Timothee than just appearing on an e-bike.
@Dvsespaña: quite the opposite. You are now reading an article advertising the Lime service that you not be reading only for that fine. Genius of them really.
@Dvsespaña: but they got even more publicity,by issuing a larger fine than is normally given so either way it’s a win win for them.
In love with a Woman in a wheelbarrow wheeling her down the street,
Hipster a******e
What did Bob say lol
Great price for the cost of promoting ones film. Win Win.
Attention seeking bellend.
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