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Joe Thomas has revealed that a very lairy fan of The Inbetweeners awkwardly dragged him into a river while he was celebrating Simon Bird’s stag do in Cambridge<\/p>\n

17:52, 09 Feb 2026Updated 19:05, 09 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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The Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas has revealed a wild insight into Simon Bird’s stag do(Image: Channel 4)<\/p>\n

One of the four stars of TV’s The Inbetweeners<\/a> wonders how rude scenes he\u2019s performed on the show will have been viewed by Prince William<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joe Thomas got into outrageous situations, sometimes when naked, while playing Simon Cooper in the Channel 4<\/a> coming-of-age sex comedy series which ran from 2008 to 2010, and was followed by film versions in 2011 and 2014. William and his wife Kate were seen laughing all the way through a screening in Wales of The Inbetweeners Movie 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

Asked how he feels about the Prince in particular seeing him in hilarious but shocking scenes, Joe replies: \u201cAm I more or less likely to get one of those OBE things because of that?! Well, I\u2019ve made an impression. I\u2019m pleased he\u2019s seen it. He should know his bloody subjects! He\u2019s going to be king one day and he needs to get close to his people, right? I genuinely don\u2019t know what to think, I\u2019m just in denial. It is fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe revealed a fan ‘jumped him into the water’ while punting(Image: Channel 4)<\/p>\n

Joe<\/a> was interviewed at The Comedy Rooms in Worthing over the weekend, and told how he is still plagued by Inbetweeners fans shouting phrases from the show, including references to Simon\u2019s ex girlfriend Carly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell yeah. People shout \u2018Carly\u2019 and things like that. One time I was playing football with Simon Bird who plays Will, and someone just shouted out \u2018Your Mum\u2019s a c**t!\u2019 That\u2019s not a line from the show, that\u2019s just rude. Neither of our Mums are c***s!\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe, now 42, and Simon, 41, met as students at Cambridge University and they returned to that city for Simon\u2019s stag do ahead of his wedding in 2012.<\/p>\n

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He had a very awkward interaction with another fan(Image: Channel 4)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point about stag parties is that the stag is meant to get like punished, right?\u201d Joe points out. \u201cWell, I went to Simon Bird\u2019s stag party and I f***ing got it all. We were punting – which was not my choice – on a boat, pushing ourselves along with a long pole.<\/p>\n

“An Inbetweeners fan on another boat came alongside, and he was completely drunk and grabbed me and jumped both of us into the water. There was this weird<\/a> moment when we were just sinking. I thought \u2018What\u2019s your end game here mate cos this is genuinely weird, just me and you hugging each other while we sort of drown?\u2019<\/p>\n

“He eventually released me, and we popped up, and there was a bridge on the river full of tourists, and they were all filming us on their mobile phones. It was a very sunny day by this river, and everyone was drunk.<\/p>\n

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Joe is excited for another series of the hit show(Image: Channel 4)<\/p>\n

“This other lad recognised me and his way of celebrating that was that he pulled down his trousers and pants and was just there with his penis. I didn\u2019t even see it and my mate goes \u2018Oh Joe, looks like there\u2019s someone over there for you!\u2019\u201d However, Joe is delighted that a fourth series of The Inbetweeners is in the pipeline, though he doesn\u2019t yet know what it will involve.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has happened is that the people who write The Inbetweeners a while ago sold the rights to a larger entity, and they recently bought them back so they can make some more.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m really excited. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. I just know they\u2019re writing something, and I would really love to do it. That\u2019s pretty much it. I hope there\u2019s more because I\u2019ve not got that much else to do! I do like The Inbetweeners as well!\u201d<\/p>\n

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