Boomtown festival-goer reunites Outnumbered star Ramona Marquez with her phone
He did a triple take as she came to collect it.
A Boomtown Fair attendee was left speechless after reuniting Outnumbered star Ramona Marquez with her missing phone following the three-day event.
Connor Parkinson, 18, thought he had found his friend’s lost iPhone 7 during the music festival in Winchester but, after realising he had made a mistake, gave his address to a man who called the number on Monday afternoon claiming it was his.
Hours later, as Parkinson napped following a weekend of dancing, he was awoken by actress Marquez and her father, who had made the phone call.
brother found a phone at boomtown, the owner came to pick it up and turned out to be karen from outnumbered hahahaha pic.twitter.com/cuU5QpCyBR
— kerri-rose (@kezzaiscool) August 15, 2017
“I did a double or triple take”, Parkinson said, adding: “I was a bit surprised and then was like ‘are you who I think you are’ and she said yeah.
“I was a big fan when I was a younger, I’d watch it all the time.”
After asking for a quick photo because “my mates won’t believe me”, Parkinson, from Locks Heath, Southampton, sent the picture to his sister.
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He added they talked about the festival but avoided Outnumbered gossip.
“I don’t think she liked being recognised,” he added.
Marquez starred as Karen in Outnumbered which ran on BBC One between 2007 and 2014, returning to the role last year for a one-off Christmas special.