Last week’s genuine Internet phenomenon, the Cigar Guy, who crashed the hearts and minds of millions after his mustachioed, cigar smoking face popped up in the background of a Ryder Cup photo featuring a shot by Tiger Woods heading dangerously close to Daily Mail photographer Mark Pain’s lens, has finally been located.
His name is Rupesh Shingadia. He’s a 30-year-old investment analyst living in London with his parents, a housewife and retired mechanic. The cigar and the mustache are fake, naturally. The “turban” is actually the top of a ponytail wig.
Ridiculous costume or no, Shingadia is genuinely surprised by all of the attention. “I am embarrassed and overwhelmed,” he told the Daily Mail. “Never in a million years could I have expected anything like this.” He called the whole experience “truly surreal.”
Shingadia says that he’s just “an ordinary guy who loves golf.”
The getup, it turns out, is an homage to Miguel Angel Jimenez, a Spanish golfer. “I love the way he walks around the course with a cigar clamped between his teeth.”
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