1. “A lot of spare seats.” What Waleed Ali did on a plane that made people very uncomfortable.
During a conversation about “shoulder surfing” on The Project, Waleed Aly revealed he in fact truly disliked the idea that people were reading over his shoulder on public transport and on flights.
He then began to tell his co-hosts Gorgi Coghlan, Meshel Laurie, and Nath Valvo, just how his discomfort came to be.
“When I was doing my PhD, I was doing a lot of it on planes,” he said.