Just about everyone has chimed in on the royal wedding, and this includes 10-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, whose clever commentary before and during the ceremony dominated his Twitter feed.
As Prince William and Catherine Middleton were being united at Westminster Abbey, Slater, who is in a relationship that might ultimately lead to marriage, tweeted this observation: "How scary is a wedding even without all this hoopla! Imagine how stressed out you'd be to do something wrong in front of 2B."
As the world's most successful surfer and, thus, a celebrity in his own right, Slater clearly was disappointed not to have received an invitation to the royal spectacle. "I'd have worn a Luke Sweeney suit if I got the invite," he tweeted. "Would have walked right behind #Becks for the shot so mom could see me!"
On news that William has been known to ride waves, Slater, tweeting from Australia, extended an invitation of his own: "If he comes to Oz for honeymoon I'll take William surfing and skip trestles next week. Just throwing it out there." (Trestles, near San Clemente, Calif., is the site of a major surf competition to be held next week.)
Earlier Slater had tweeted, "Would be so funny if they just bailed and eloped. What would the world do!?"
That was preceded by the comment: "Who is this Kate they keep referring to?"
From both of those tweets sprang forth a sudden thought: "Am I tweeting myself right out of a potential future wedding?"
Probably not. It was, of course, all in good fun.
-- Image of Kelly Slater and girlfriend Kalani Miller is courtesy of © ASP 2011 Stefan Jose
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