WATCH David Attenborough on flirting with Jessica Chastain: 'She was a very sweet lady'
HE WAS the talk of the internet last weekend after a reportedly 'flirtatious' interview with Jessica Chastain, and Sir David Attenborough has laughed off the incident.
The 88-year-old TV legend laughed as he spoke exclusively to the Daily Express Online this week about the interview on the Graham Norton show.
When it was put to him about flirting with 37-year-old Jessica, David said: "Really? Ha! It makes me laugh, yes. She was a very sweet lady."
It makes me laugh, yes. She was a very sweet lady
When asked if he was going to meet up with Jessica again, he nobly replied: "We don't have an arrangement."
The naturalist star has just launched a new series of his award-winning David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities, on Watch.
Speaking about the third series of his critically-acclaimed popular natural history series, 88-year-old David said he isn't thinking of retiring.
"I mean, I'm just having too much fun. To do things people pay you to do is just such a fantastic stroke of luck. For people to want me to keep on doing what I'm doing is just bliss really. It would be rather ungrateful to say, 'No, I can't be bothered'."
Sir David Attenborough Interview
This is the third of this critically-acclaimed popular natural history series, and Sir David showcases some of nature’s most extraordinary and baffling species.
But it sounds like the star's love of animals lead him to bringing them back to his house when he was travelling in the 1960s.
David regaled tales of having a colony of bush babies taking over a room in his home, and bringing animals back for his children to look after.
He said: "I used to collect animals for London Zoo and would bring 50, 60 or 70 animals back from a trip. Sometimes they were maybe young animals who weren't ready for the zoo and already fixated on me, so you wouldn't get rid of them.
"I would keep them for maybe two or three months before they were ready to come to the zoo!"
He added: "When my children were young they had all kinds of things - lungfish, hummingbirds, parrots, pythons, chameleons, stick insects. A huge number of different things. You can't do it these days, you're not allowed to. And I dare say they're right.
"Maybe animals should be kept in the wild and stay there. There's very little of the wild left these days, so maybe what there is should be populated by animals. None the less, it was fun."
In this new series, arguably the world's most famous naturalist is set to take on various claims about the natural world - and dispel the myths.
David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities, new and exclusive to Watch, Mondays at 9pm from 2nd February
