Stephen Fry recalls hilarious moment his booze advice left Nigella Lawson red-faced after she mistakenly ordered a VERY x-rated drink

Stephen Fry recalled the moment Nigella Lawson ordered an X-rated drink after her alcohol advice was hilariously misunderstood.

The English actor, 67, shared the anecdote during an appearance on the latest episode of the Dish from Waitrose podcast with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett.

He revealed that once, while on a Qantas flight, he had ordered vodka and soft drink, which the attendant informed him was called a “skinny bitch”, a name he said had been coined by catwalk models because they could get ” maximum alcohol”. “Excellent investment for a minimum of calories.”

Stephen was so amused by the name that, during a birthday night out for celebrity chef Nigella a week later, he excitedly asked if the bar waiter could “make him a skinny bitch”.

Nigella was “fascinated” by the order, she said, so she told him her Qantas story. “God, that’s good,” she had responded.

However, when the pair reunited three weeks later, Nigella revealed she had ‘made a fool of herself’ after going to a bar and mistakenly ordering a ‘skinny sl**’.

Speaking to Angela and Nick, Stephen said: “I was sitting, waiting for take-off, on a Qantas flight, and the steward came and squatted in front of me, as if to let me tell a very good secret that I was going to travel.” . to open the bar for me instead of serving me the usual coffee, orange juice and hot champagne or whatever.

‘So, he said (in an Australian accent) “Do you want something from the bar?” And I said, “Uh, well, could you give me some vodka and soda water?” and he said, “A skinny bitch is on her way.”

And then when he came back, I said, “Did you call this drink a skinny bitch?” He said, “Well, that’s what they call it on the runway, honey, because you get the maximum alcohol for your minimum calories.”

Stephen continued: “Then I thought about this, and it happened to be around this time of year, a week later, it was Nigella Lawson’s birthday and she was having a party, and we were meeting in a bar somewhere. “. in London before going to lunch.

“And I thought I’d try my new knowledge, so I said to the waiter, ‘Can you make me a skinny bitch?’ and he said, ‘Sure.’ And Nigella was very fascinated.

‘I told her the story about the Qantas steward and she said, “God, that’s good.”

And I saw her three weeks later and she said, “My God, I’ve been acting like a fool.” And I said, “What happened?” She said: “I walked into a bar and ordered a skinny slut.” Isn’t it fabulous? My God, my God.

It comes after the actor opened up about being gay as a teenager in September and revealed he used to be known as ‘Celibate Stephen’.

Stephen came out publicly as gay in the 1980s and has been open about his sexuality for many years.

In a new interview with The timesStephen admitted that being gay he used to feel like there was “a horror inside him” and he felt “rejected.”

He explained: “In the Eighties, I was known as Celibate Stephen. I was so excited about my job that I forgot to have sex.

‘It was also fear: I always felt rejected in gay bars. I couldn’t dance; I didn’t look good. All I wanted was to sit and talk. However, in some ways I was lucky: I lost many friends to AIDS.

‘Being gay gave me years of misery but also an education in literature.

‘When I was 13, my sexuality was a secret horror growing inside me and I was desperately trying to figure out who I was, what future there was for me. He knew the disgrace and humiliation of homosexuals.

And he added: “Oscar Wilde had taught me that it would be a life of mockery, exile and secrecy.

“And then there were those writers, like EM Forster or Somerset Maugham, who held their heads up high and made me feel that it wasn’t all slime and gloomy people in a terrible world of darkness.”