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People are loving this heartwarming story about Roger Moore meeting a young James Bond fan
ICONIC BOND ACTOR Roger Moore has passed away at the age of 89, after a “short but brave” battle with cancer.
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Fans of the actor have been paying tribute to him online with photos and discussion of their favourite films, but one story has touched people in particular.
Screenwriter Marc Haynes has shared this tale of meeting Roger Moore in 1983, when he was seven years old and on holiday in Nice with his grandad.
Moore had appeared in five Bond films at that point, the most recent being Octopussy – so it was safe to say that young Marc was excited to see ‘James Bond’ in the flesh.
The actor signed his plane ticket, but Haynes was distraught to see that the signature did not read ‘James Bond’, but ‘Roger Moore’. He’d got the wrong man!
“I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my heart sinks,” Haynes wrote. “So my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket he’d only just signed.”
Years later, when Haynes was 30 years old and on a job for UNICEF, he ran into Roger Moore again in his role as an ambassador.
He told him the story of meeting him at Nice Airport, to which Moore said: “Well, I don’t remember but I’m glad you got to meet James Bond.”
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“I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man,” Haynes concluded.
His story has been shared hundreds of thousands of times across social media, and it’s hitting people right in the feelings:
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What a gent. RIP, Sir Roger Moore.
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