Speaking to the MailOnline in 2012, Mr Chippy owner Kim Scales said of the strange moment: “It was when she first moved to the village about two years ago.

“She is really interested in who people are and wanted to know all about our lives and how we live.

“We own the pub and a mobile fish and chip van, but she said she’d never heard of anything like it, and said she wanted to work on it.

“She got on there with her son, but we were all laughing because not one of the locals realised who it was.