That Peter Crouch Podcast, Theroux remembered meeting Banksy at a Queens Park Rangers match in 2001.During the game, Theroux says he was sat next to Banksy in corporate box at the stadium, and was told to look out for QPR’s “ungainly” new striker, Crouch.He added: “One of the other people in the box was a young artist.
He was a little bit sheepish, he wasn’t terribly outgoing, and I said, ‘What do you do?’“He said, ‘I’m a street artist,’ and he gave me a little booklet of his art, and I looked at it and it looked quite good and I kind of made awkward chit-chat, and I said, ‘Oh, what’s your name?’ and he said, ‘Banksy.'”Theroux added: “Fast-forward a year, and people kept going, ‘Have you heard of this bloke Banksy?
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