English actor James Norton with manager Jan Gabriel. Picture: Basil Wholefoods<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old is well known for being a part of BBC\u2019s TV series Happy Valley, where he played Tommy Lee Royce alongside actress Sarah Lancashire (Catherine Cawood).<\/p>\n
He was also Pete Riley in ITV\u2019s four-episode drama Playing Nice, as well as Grantchester, War & Peace, and McMafia.<\/p>\n
Most recently, he had a lead role as Sean Rafferty in Netflix\u2019s House of Guinness, which was released on the streaming platform at the end of September.<\/p>\n
It follows the lives of the powerful and ambitious Guinness family in 19th-century Dublin, immediately after the death of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness.<\/p>\n
On Monday (October 27) morning, the actor popped into Basil, a wholefoods caf\u00e9 and coffee shop.<\/p>\n
The Basil cafe in St John’s Road, Tunbridge Wells. Picture: Google<\/p>\n
The independent business has two branches in the town, one in St John’s Road and the other at Lime Hill Road.<\/p>\n
Manager Jan Gabriel told KentOnline she was a little star-struck at the encounter but was \u201cthrilled\u201d to meet him.<\/p>\n
The actor had walked into the shop with a friend and ordered two coffees to take away.<\/p>\n
He told staff that he had recently completed a parkrun in Pevensey, East Sussex, and was passing by on his way back.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jan, who has been working at Basil for the last eight years, explained that she immediately recognised Mr Norton after binge-watching House of Guinness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he took his glasses off, I realised it was him,\u201d she said. \u201cI told him I\u2019d just seen him on TV recently and that he was brilliant in the series.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old added: \u201cHe was down to earth \u2013 really friendly and lovely. He was quite happy to have his photos taken with everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really nice. You never get anyone famous in here!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An English actor who starred in a hit BBC crime drama and a new Netflix series delighted staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,192,191,194,3867,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-kent","12":"tag-syndicate","13":"tag-tunbridge-wells","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}