Steve Wright - Steve Wright’s Further Factoids

STEVE

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F U R T H E R

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Steve Wright

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Socialite, party animal and ex jail bird Paris Hiltonwears 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 Ramsaytakes a size 15 shoe!

Grease is the Word judge 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 Rooneyproposed to his childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlinon 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 Dohertyachieved 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”.

Madonnaand fellow singer Gwen Stefaniare 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 Wightis 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 STILLkeeps every single press cutting which mentions her daughter… She must be living in a warehouse by now then, in LA of course.

Truro beekeeperRichard 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.

Baboonsare 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 £10,000separating 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.

A Welshmanhas 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 his home after digging a 60-foot network of tunnels beneath it. The 75 year old spent 40 years burrowing under his 20-room house, removing 100 cubic metres of earth with a spade and pulleys.

A Turkish student hoping to get into the record books gave the wrong answers to every question in a university entrance exam. The chap, from Ankara, deliberately answered all 180 questions wrong as a form of protest against the national university entrance examinations.

Two motoristswho model themselves on the Blues Brothers were allowed to wear shades on their driving licence photos. Tribute singers Jake and Elwood talked DVLA bosses into bending the rules.

A British millionaire bought an entire Bulgarian coastal resort with a view to naming it after himself. He paid £3 million for the town and said locals are “quite excited” about it being renamed Alexander.

A 59-year-old manwho wanted to prove he was still as strong as a horse pulled a carriage 430 miles across Hungary. He started at Zahony on the country’s eastern border, and dragged the 66-stone carriage to Szombathely on the western border in 22 days.

A teenager in India became famous for his ability to take in milk through his nose and to squirt it out of his eyes. He sucks milk up his nostrils and squirts it up to 12 feet through his tear ducts, and the feat has earned him a place in the Limca Book of Records , India’s version of the Guinness Book of World Records .