Steve Wright’s Further Factoids
By Steve Wright
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After the phenomenal success of Steve Wright’s Book of Factoids, Steve returns with Further Factoids, bringing together the weirdest and most extraordinary factoids from BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
Steve Wright, one of nation's favourite DJs, is a man with a brain the size of a small planet. Unfortunately for him, this brain appears to be filled with trivia that would make Magnus Magnuson green with envy. Fortunately for us, he has decided to let his brain gush out into another hilarious, fascinating and informative compendium of strange and bizarre facts from around the world.
For example, did you know that:
• Worcestershire sauce is basically anchovy ketchup?
• They add liquid detergent to our favourite bevvy in beer commercials to make it foam more?
• Austria was the first country ever to use postcards?
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit Little Ant and Dec inside?
Bringing together more of the strangest and most hilarious factoids from Steve's show, he provides explanations, commentary and anecdotes to enhance this entertaining collection of hundreds of fun facts.
Steve Wright
Born in Greenwich in 1954, Steve Wright held a number of jobs before joining RTL (Radio Luxembourg) in the 70s, then on to BBC Radio 1 and BBC television. He's written books, penned newspaper and magazine columns and works as a media consultant & film reviewer. He's also the writer/presenter of BBC TV's Top of the Pops 2. He’s now where he belongs on Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon show, a daily miscellany of lifestyle and interviews with celebs, politicians, authors & musicians.
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Steve Wright’s Further Factoids - Steve Wright
Celebrity section 1
Socialite, party animal and ex jail bird Paris Hilton wears a size 11 shoe. Many top designers don’t make their shoes in an 11, so they have them custom made just for her.
Meanwhile, top chef Gordon F Ramsay takes a size 15 shoe!
Grease is the Wordjudge David Gest is an avid collector of Hollywood memorabilia and his collection of items belonging to ex-wife Liza Minnelli’s mother, Judy Garland, is said to be the largest in the world.
Comedian
Jimmy Carr
has a pink
orchid named
after him.
Footballer Wayne Rooney proposed to his childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin on the forecourt of a BP garage when she was 17 with a £25,000 diamond engagement ring. And he was also lucky enough to get Tiger Tokens, a free Coca-Cola glass and a fold-down deckchair.
During the World Cup 2006, Coleen McLoughlin made a 900-mile round trip from Germany to Liverpool–for a haircut.
Singer Pete Doherty achieved 11 grade As at GCSE–5 of which were A-star.
Early in his career, movie star Hugh Grant was often credited as Hughie Grant
.
Madonna and fellow singer Gwen Stefani are distant cousins. No Doubt about that.
The word factoid
was given
7 points on the TV show
Countdown in 2006.
Did you know that "dilogy" is a term used in Hollywood to describe an original movie and its sequel? Three linked movies are a trilogy. Two movies–such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason–are a dilogy. But dilogy
is such a naff word that it’s never used publicly.
Mile for mile, the Isle of Wight is the most haunted island in the world. Don’t tell Derek Acorah or Living TV, they’ll be all over it.
Can this next factoid really be true? You decide…The French word for paperclip is trombone
.
Victoria Beckham’s mum Jackie Adams STILL keeps every single press cutting which mentions her daughter…She must be living in a warehouse by now then, in LA of course.
Truro beekeeper Richard Harrison did not know why he kept being stung–until an expert said the bees hated his new shower gel. And they didn’t like his hair either. And those hideous shirts have to go. And another thing…silly socks.
According to British Law, while it’s an offence to drop litter on the pavement, unbelievably it’s not an offence to throw it over someone’s garden wall. Well, that explains a lot. I’m going to have to talk to those dustmen.
An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine.
Movie star Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies,
she says.
Baboons are so clever that they can tell the difference between English and French. Zookeepers at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons, which had been transferred from a Paris zoo…Whatever next–their own reality TV show?
One in 10 Scandinavians is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement.
And did you know that chewing gum can only be removed with
Bosses at Madame Tussauds spent £10,000 separating the models of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston when they split up. It was the first time the museum had two people’s waxworks joined together. It’s a peculiar thing but the last time I went to Madame Tussauds the manager said, Could you keep moving, Mr Wright, we’re stocktaking.
At the time of writing, Her Majesty The Queen has never operated a computer. This she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.
One in four people in the UK still don’t know 192, the old number for directory enquiries, has in fact been abolished.
Eccentrics section
A Welshman has had a slice of ham and pineapple pizza tattooed on the back of his head. It took three hours to complete and features three types of ham, chunks of pineapple and strands of cheese dripping down his neck.
A Chinese man recently married himself to express his dissatisfaction with reality
. The 39 year old, from Zhuhai city, married a life-sized foam cut-out of himself wearing a woman’s bridal dress.
A sci-fi fan has spent 30 years and £30,000 building his
own flying saucer. The builder put the machine together in his
garage in Michigan in the USA, using aviation books.
A graffiti artist recreated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in a run-down building in Iowa. The man and his family spent their life savings, and his parents have taken out a second mortgage, to pay for the project.
An eccentric known as The Mole Man was banned from