(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Ricky Gervais thought he'd never use a private jet when he was offered it, but ended up on it "every weekend".
The British comic has forged a successful Hollywood career over the last few years. He tries not to let his new celebrity go to his head, but admits it can be hard. When shooting 2009's The Invention of Lying he was amazed to be given access to his own plane, and quickly got used to taking trips in it.
"They gave me a private jet for getting back and forth between New York and London. I thought, 'I will never use it,' but I ended up using it every weekend. You turn up, right, and the airport is completely empty. I mean, there's just someone at the desk and then the pilot, who says, 'Are you ready to go?' and you say, 'Don't you want to see my passport?' and he goes, 'Oh yeah, I suppose I'd better,'" Ricky marvelled.
"Please don't ask me how much a pint of milk is, because my answer will be something like a thousand pounds."
The star found fame by writing and appearing in UK television show The Office, which has been successfully remade in America. He can still recall when he first realised he was getting used to be famous it happened in an airport.
"I remember the first time I went to the airport and they took me through a special diplomatic door and my head was down and I was thinking, 'Oh my god, everybody must hate me for pushing in'. But the next time I went, I was all 'Where's that bloke who walks you through?'" he deadpanned to British newspaper The Telegraph.
Ricky and his long-term girlfriend Jane Fallon have never had children. He realises that many don't understand that decision but maintains it was the right one for them. The star thinks he'd be a nervous wreck if he was a parent as he already spends too much time fussing about his pets.
"One good reason I don't want them is that I don't think I'd sleep at night. Before this interview I had to check twice that I hadn't left the doors to the pool open because I was worried the cat would go through them and drown. So with a child, I'd just be stood over it, making sure it was still breathing," he said. (C) Cover Media