The Daily Tonic: The Icky Dictaphone

You’ve all been sending in such excellent answers to the questions of the day. We’re trying to respond to everyone in turn (and will keep working our way through the backlog) but here are a couple of our favourite examples of the strangest celebrity behaviour you’ve seen below.

Today’s question: Have you ever shagged a celeb? If not, what’s the closest you’ve come?

Send your stories of celebrity seduction to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll toss some digital PB goodies to the winners.

N writes:
“While working at Nickelodeon in the late 90s/early 00s, I did a shoot with Dave Benson Philips at a wildlife safari park. After filming he pulled out a dictaphone and asked me to speak like a ‘little girl’.

“I was a bit naive and so did as asked into the dictaphone while he recorded it. He said my impression ‘wasn’t bad’ and put the dictaphone back in his pocket. I still cringe whenever I see him on telly.”

LHTP writes:
“Download Festival, 2006. Pompous US alt-metallers Tool were headlining the main stage. Singer Maynard James Keenan steps back during one of many, many extended instrumental sections, wanders behind a very tall bass cab, rummages in his jeans and starts wanking exuberantly – not realising everybody standing next to the monitor desk has a perfect view.

“The monitor engineer didn’t bat an eyelid, so perhaps not a one-off.”

In response to Gal Gadot’s godawful Imagine video, people have been sharing a much superior star-studded singalong: a six-minute version of Let It Be from Norwegian TV show, Gylne Tider.

If you’ve never seen it before, it is a genuinely mind-boggling array of celebs they managed to rope together and there’ll be at least three times where you yell “WHAT THE FUCK?” at the screen.

But mainly we’re including it here because it leads into a story that we otherwise would have had no good segue into…

[Treat yourself – watch it]

JT writes:
“I was once on a flight from LA to Toronto at the start of the Toronto Film Festival, spotting stars left and right. As I walked down the aisle to take my seat, I passed John Goodman.

“As it happened, I had left London at very short notice just as one of my best mates from Sydney had arrived, having spunked a fair chunk of his savings to visit for his 40th birthday. The weird thing is that this mate bears an uncanny resemblance to John Goodman and hates being told of it.

“After about an hour into the flight it dawned on me that I could make it up to my buddy, so crawled respectfully towards the big man with a pen and a sick bag on which to write. I apologised profusely to him for the intrusion and explained my dilemma, when he snatched the pen and sick bag from me, scribbled hastily and, without even a sideways glance, simply grunted and shoved both back into my hands.

“I sat back down and read what I had asked him to write, which was: ‘Dear Alan. I am so sick of people saying that I look like you! Happy birthday. Cheers.’ And then where he had signed it ‘George Wendt’.”

“It was Norm from Cheers.”

[Play it here]

RIP Kenny Rogers – here’s his episode of The Muppet Show
[Watch on Dailymotion]

Animals posing for album covers
[See on Bored Panda]

Nick Cave spotting: real estate edition
[Check out the bathroom]