James Martin left fuming after workmen splash his £135,000 Audi in paint
TV chef James Martin was left fuming after workmen splashed his £135,000 Audi in paint.
The Saturday Morning host had parked at services when a team spraying the pump next to his ruined his motor.
One worker tried to clean off the paint with a rag only to make the stains worse.
Angry James, 49, then went to the till and sought a manager over the damage to his beloved Audi RS E-Tron GT.
An onlooker at the BP garage on the M3 southbound near Winchester, Hants, earlier this month said: “James was furious. He went inside to speak to the cashier.
“It wasn’t a foul-mouthed rant but he demanded to speak to the manager and said he would get his lawyers involved.
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"James was trying to be calm and polite but you could see he was really annoyed.
“He kept saying the car was new and how much he liked it.
“He was trying to warn other drivers so their cars wouldn’t get too damaged either.”
James, dating TV producer Louise Davies since 2011, also owns a Chevrolet Corvette, a Lotus 340R, a 1948 Maserati and two Formula One cars.
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He has said: “My mates come round and they look into my garage and I go, ‘These are my babies, but you know, it's each to their own, isn’t it?”
He has raced competitively in a 1964 Mini Cooper S, winning a race at the Brands Hatch Mini Festival in 2013 and has also raced Aston Martins.
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BP said: “We are aware of the incident, we are resolving this with the customer.”
A spokesman for James declined to comment.