Sir Ian McKellen 'snubs Jodie Kidd'

Sir Ian McKellen snubbed Jodie Kidd when she asked him for an autograph, the model has claimed.

The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant spoke to Sir McKellen at a film premiere, but said that she was "disappointed" when she met the Lord of the Rings star in real life.

"My niece was a huge fan of Gandalf," Kidd told The Daily Telegraph. "So I asked him if he'd mind signing the tickets, but he got very stroppy and said, 'no'.

"It would have made a little girl's life, so I was a bit like, 'bugger you'."

McKellen, who will reprise the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit films, was recently mistaken for a tramp in Melbourne, Australia.

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