{"id":141042,"date":"2024-12-30T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/blurs-alex-james-upset-locals-at-xmas-bash\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:01:48","slug":"blurs-alex-james-upset-locals-at-xmas-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/blurs-alex-james-upset-locals-at-xmas-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur&#8217;s Alex James upset locals at Xmas bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-12-30\" datetime=\"1735556508\" pubdate=\"\">30 December 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Blur&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/alex-james\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,alex-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex James<\/a> upset locals at a church Christmas party. <\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Blur&#8217;s Alex James upset locals at Xmas bash<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old bassist confessed he got drunk at the local bash and upset attendees by using an \u201cantique figurine of the naked baby Jesus\u201d as an ashtray.<\/p>\n<p>He explained in his book &#8216;Over The Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year&#8217;: \u201cI had been smoking in the room with the art and the objects, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone I didn\u2019t know had said, \u2018I\u2019m not sure if you\u2019re allowed to smoke in here\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d dutifully picked up a little ashtray on the sideboard where I was leaning and extinguished my cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSadly, unlike some staterooms, not everything in this one was actually an ashtray.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019d happened upon an antique figurine of the naked baby Jesus and stubbed my fag-end out by rubbing it around in his crotch, quite obliviously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nTo make matters worse, Alex then went on to break the antique.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;When I was alerted to what I\u2019d done by the person who\u2019d asked me to stop smoking, I tried to put a positive spin on it.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI picked baby Jesus back up to demonstrate his robustness by tugging one of his little arms.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe arm came off along with a plume of impossibly fine, glittering, powdery dust.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I managed to wedge it back on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/blurs-alex-james-upset-locals-xmas-bash-1411363.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 December 2024 Blur&#8217;s Alex James upset locals at a church Christmas party. Blur&#8217;s Alex James upset locals at Xmas bash The 56-year-old bassist confessed he got drunk at the local bash and upset attendees by using an \u201cantique figurine of the naked baby Jesus\u201d as an ashtray. 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