Not a Photoshop. Not Sasha Baron Cohen’s next incarnation. Something altogether more mundane. And all the more charming for being just that.
We can reveal that Cigar Guy is golf fan Rupesh Shingadia, a 30-year-old investment analyst in the City – and a very reluctant star.
‘I am embarrassed and overwhelmed,’ he said in an exclusive interview. ‘Never in a million years could I have expected anything like this.