La Tosca Gelateria, the scoop.

In the past 2 months we have had two (that we are aware of) well-known people purchase our wares. The first was an Australian actor who was a Dr in Crossroads on UK TV some 35 years ago...

The second, who visited today, is a British comedy actor - a very talented man who is very popular back in the UK. This man has an enormously famous catchphrase, which presumably he has shouted at him - or is requested to say wherever he goes.

We resisted this, as it must be incredibly irritating to be known for one thing, and seemingly one thing only, to be haunted by it, and to have it used by people who think they know you simply because they have seen you in a magazine or on the television...

So we did not say immediately 'I don't believe it!', we did not say 'ooh, I have a friend who does this great impression of you, go on, say it, say 'I don't believe it!'', we did not even mention it cleverly with our unusually finely honed and crafted Great British subtlety.

We did well.

He, however, did ask us 'so what are 2 english people doing selling ice cream in italy?'.