‘Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank has now become a reality, and I’m delighted that Hostelworld has given me this great opportunity to get to know the world of youth hostelling.
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People kept asking Eubank, who is evidently not a Partridge fan, about hostelling.
The former boxing champ finally “got in on the joke” that had been confusing him for all these years.
Sporting a three-piece suit, trademark monocle and brandishing a cane, Eubank tests out bunkbeds, politely enquires about the free wi-fi password and dusts a photograph while declaring the experience “splendid”, and “extraordinary”.
A 1997 episode of I’m Alan Partridge saw the eponymous hero pitch an increasingly freakish list of programme ideas to a BBC executive, as he suffered a nervous breakdown.
As he reels off ludicrous suggestion after ludicrous suggestion, he offers up Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank.
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“‘Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank’ has now become a reality and finally, albeit a little embarrassed and ashamed, I’m in on the joke 18 years after Alan Partridge pitched it!” ‘It was truly an unsolved mystery to me.
