![]() | Charismatic, charming, and loveable.....just some of the words you could use to describe rom-com actor Hugh Grant. As for Chris, well the jury is still out. Chris' first show on radio came on his student station ‘Loughborough Campus Radio' where he was nominated for numerous National Student Radio Awards (some say he never actually won due to administrative errors. Some say it is because he is a bit rubbish). After Uni he moved to the North West, where he now lives with his girlfriend and cat. Chris drives a rubbish car, likes fish fingers, and holds down a weekend job building dry-stone walls. Feel free to say hello and have a listen to his show - Hometime, 3-7pm, weekdays.
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Everyday at 5.25ish, Chris tells you something interesting....each one follows on from yesterday's through a very dodgy link!
Here's where he is up to:
Real life twins were reunited after both saw their Dad as an extra in the movie TWINS! * Arnie is famous for his muscles, but the world's biggest arms were over 30 inches all the way round. They belonged to body builder Greg Valentino * Greg Wallace, the bald judge from Master Chef, is rumoured to have met his wife on Twitter * NASA named one of their Mars explorers 'Gromit', after the dog from Wallace and Gromit * The man behind the song 'Life on Mars', David Bowie, got his dilated pupil after a fight with a mate in the school playground. The fight was over a girl! * In the right conditions, the human eye can detect the light of a candle up to 14 miles away * Candles were once made from beeswax, which was also considered to be a cosmetic. Women would leave it on their face, but could then not come into contact with the cooking fire as it would melt, hence the phrase 'mind your beeswax!' * Honey has been discovered to be very good at burning fat whilst you sleep (eat it, don't smear it on yourself) * The brain's sleep clock can be re-set by shining bright lights at the backs of your knees?! * Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump - they are too heavy and their knees can't take it * There are over 4,000 species of spider that can jump up to 40 times their body length * Andre Agassi was 40 this year - but when he was just 6, his Dad built a full tennis training camp in their back yard. No pressure there then * Tennis was originally played wearing a glove, and hitting the ball with your hand * The man with the world's largest hand, had a thumb measuring 26cm! * Amy Winehouse is 26. She was once an extra on the TV show The Fast Show * Jude Law was moments away from being one of the megastars on Rickey Gervais' 'Extras' * Madonna was also nearly a star on Extras. She suffers from brontophobia, a fear of thunderstorms * There is a 5000 to 1 chance you will hit by lightening at some point in your life * 15 to 1 was a Channel 4 quiz show. In the famous episode when William G Stewart dropped the answer cards, one of the contestants was Mrs Wilcox...who went on to be the first winner of £1m on Who Wants to be a Millionnaire? * 80% of millionnaires drive 2nd hand cars * A car airbag inflates at 198 mph * the first boob job was in 1895 and involved injecting paraffin?! * the highest ever parachute jump was 102,800 ft above sea level - literally the edge of space * At their peak, Wham bars were bought at a rate of 30 million a year in the UK * The best selling chocolote bar in the world is the Snickers, with global annual sales of $2b * Snickers were once called Marathons - the average woman uses the energy equivalent of 16 jam donuts to run a marathon * Marathon got its name after a soldier ran the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message - he then dropped dead * Text messaging peak hours in the UK are 10.30pm - 11.30pm * the oldest person to ever climb the world's highest peak, Mt Everest, was 64 * the oldest person ever, was 122 when she died in 1997. She was so old that she actually met Vincent van Gogh! * Vincent van Gogh only ever sold one painting * Former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent, once broke the Guiness World Record for the most pancakes thrown at another person. That other person was Eastenders actor Joe Swash * An Australian man holds the record for typing 'one' to 'one million' in words, not numbers. He started in 1982 and finished in 1998. When asked why he had done it, he replied "I didn't have anything else to do". Oh dear * Kangaroos can not walk backwards * A baby kangaroo is called a Joey. Matt le Blanc (Joey in Friends) won his first acting award for his part in a ketchup commercial * Ketchup was first made using anchovies, mushrooms and kidney beans * Native Americans used to flavour their beans with maple syrup and bear fat * In a survey, 25% of Americans said they would abandon their friends and family for $10m * the last private resident of #10 Downing Street was a man called Mr Chicken * it is believed that a chicken is the closest living relative to a T-Rex * Dinosaurs are extinct, as is the Do-Do Bird. Portugese settlers gave the bird its name, from the word 'dou dou' meaning 'fool' - because they never learnt to run away * Homer Simpon's well know for his phrase 'Doh!'. His email address is chunkylover53@aol.com * there are 60 billion emails sent worldwide everyday. 54 billion of them are SPAM * Tinned SPAM was sent to us by the USA after WW2 to help with the food shortage - Specially Processed American Meat * A war time recipe for 'potato dessert' was used on a radio programme called 'The Kitchen Front'. Instead of using butter though, it suggested liquid paraffin, which turned out to be a laxative. Awkward * the world's biggest potato was grown in Germany in 1997 and weighed 3.2kg/7lbs - about the same as a small dog * Will Smith was the star of the film '7 Pounds'. He was also the Fresh Prince of Bel Air....and he really was born and raised in West Philidelphia * Cream cheese was created in the 1890s in New York by a man trying to follow a recipe for a hard blue cheese from France. The sloppy mess he created turned out to be quite nice * New York got its nick-name in the 1920s when it hosted some of the biggest horse race meetings in the world. The main prize got the nickname 'The Apple' and because the races were the biggest around, the city then got the name 'The Big Apple' * That well known phrase about 'an apple a day' was developed from the more popular 1800s phrase "an apple upon bed, will keep the doctor from earning his bread" * Mike Myers, who plays Dr Evil in Austin Powers, owns the very last letter written by Beatle George Harrison. In it, George allegedly asks to be sent a mini-me doll * The biggest insect in the world is the Goliath Beetle. A male can weigh the same as a pack of butter (a 250g one) * The World Record for eating butter is 7 1/4lb blocks in 5 minutes * The World's Longest name is 'Captain Fantastic - Faster than Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Wolverine, The Hulk and The Flash combined'. A teenager changed it by deed poll * The world's biggest collection of comic books is in the Library of Congress at Washington DC - 100,000 issues! * In Dec 2009, a man returned a book to the library in the US town of New Bedford. It was called 'Facts I Ought Know About my Government. It was due back in May...1909 * 'May the force be with you' is a famous quote from Star Wars. In one scene in Empire Strikes Back, you can see an extra running around in the back ground carrying an ice cream maker * American ice-cream manufacturers have in the past tried out garlic flavour, jalepeno flavour and pumpkin flavour ice creams. Sales were 'disappointing' * Roman brides would carry bundles of garlic at their wedding, rather than flowers * Queen Victoria's wedding cake weighed 21st * Queen Elizabeth II was once sent a royal gift of 7 kilos of prawns * My dad is allergic to prawns * 'Dad' rhymes with 'mad'. Lady Gaga taught herself to play piano when she was 4. She was later signed by her record label not as an artist, but as a song writer to bash out hits for other artists * Gaga was a child genius. If you want your little one to grow up to be a genius, give them less junk food - fat slows brain development at a young age, whilst iron improves it * On average, a woman irons 215 miles of clothes in her life time. A man will iron 78 miles * if you travelled south from Burnley for 215 miles you would end up near Salisbury, home of Michael Crawford AKA Frank Spencer. His most famous catchphrase is "oooohhh Betty" although he never at any point ever said those words together * Cartoon character Betty Boop started life as a dog, her creator originally drew her as a floppy eared dog * Dogs chase balls. Wimbledon first used yellow coloured tennis balls in 1986 * 1986 in Roman numerals is MCMLXXXVI. Movie makers will often put the year a film is made in Roman numerals, to help slow down the movie seemingly getting outdated before its time * The Romans used urine as a disinfectant * 3% of the ice in Antartica is frozen penguin wee * Penguin bars have been putting facts on their wrappers since 1932 * Biscuits are nice dunked in tea. In the UK 165,000,000 cups of tea are drunk everyday * Tea is full of antioxidants, and so can be very good for you. It does however contain polyphenols which can make it hard for the body to absorb iron * Irons now come with steam and water sprays, but a good Victorian house wife was encouraged to use saliva to help get out those stubborn creases * Victorian children were set to work aged 5! * When Prime Minister David Cameron celebrated his 5th birthday the UK's number one song was Rod Stewart's Maggie May * The world's most expensive fishing rod is made of 3lbs of gold and around 100 carats of diamonds and rubies, and costs £780,000 * Eating too many carrots will cause a persons skin to turn an orange/yellow colour * Carrots: a favourite for most rabbits, including Bugs Bunny, although Mel Blanc who provided the voice for Bug's Bunny was actually allergic to them * Voice over artists for films get paid lots of money, Christine Cavanaugh was the voice of Babe the talking pig, Dexter in Dexters Labatory and the carrot topped Chucky from the cartoon the Rugrats. * 'Chucky' nearly rhymes with 'cookie'. The first fortune cookie was made in America - the tradition of a fortune with your cookie is Japanese even though most people associate fortune cookies with the Chinese tradition * The Cookie Monster on Sesame Street was originally called Sid * In 1970, Ernie from Sesame Street released his 'Rubber duckie' song. It reached #16 in the charts * In 1970, England football captain Bobby Moore was cleared of stealing a bracelet in Colombia. Bobby starred alongside Michael Caine in the movie 'Escape to Victory'. Caine didn't pass his driving test until he was 50 * In Brazil, sugar cane is turned into alcohol and used to power vehicles * Brazil is home to the widest variety of monkey species in the world * Ross' monkey in Friends (Marcel) was played by two different monkeys. One was called 'Katie', the other was named 'Monkey'. No, really * Katie Price stood as a candidate in the 2001 General Election. She was in the running to be MP for Stretford in Manchester. Her manifesto was 'free breast implants for all' and a ban on parking tickets - she got less than 2% of the vote * Peter Andre was christened Peter Andrea * Peter found fame in Australia via the 'talent' show 'New Faces', which he won many years ago. Also a winner of a different series was Paul Hogan aka Crocodile Dundee * Hulk Hogan was initially offered the contract for the George Foreman Grill...but he didn't call them back so they gave it to George. The grill went on to sell millions around the world - Hulk Hogan though became the face of a blender called 'The Thunderizer'. That apparently sold less than 3,000 units * The food blender was developed by a man who wanted a quick way to puree food to help the recovery of his stomach ulcer * Blended potato is a yellow/brown colour. Apparently, the universe is also beige! To an outsider looking at it (which is probably impossible due to it's infinity) it would have a pale brown glow, which scientists have called 'Cosmic Latte' * Legend has it, that Ethiopian farmers were the first to notice the effects of caffeine when their goats started 'dancing' after eating coffee berries * Strawberries can bleach your teeth whiter thanks to their acids. Also, if you are ever trying to watch the calories, have black pepper on your strawberries, not cream...it's suprisingly good (apparently) * If you are not watching the calories, why not try the world's fattiest burger? A burger joint in Arizona sells the 'Quadruple By-pass Burger' - 12 slices of cheese, 2lbs of beef and just 8,000 calories * There is a type of cheese called 'Limburger' that has a very unique odour. It is made using the same bacteria that is found on human skin...the bacteria that creates B.O! That cheese sounds yummy?!* Skin is the human body's largest organ * An organ is often played with stops in, to muffle the sound when practising. But when it is time to really go for it, and give it all you have got, the stops are removed - hence 'pulling out all the stops' * BBC News reader Huw Edwards is an accomplished organ player * The part of Edward Cullen in Twighlight is of course played by Robert Pattinson. Despite now being a worldwide heart throb, and despite the massive success of the films, 75,000 fans of the original book signed a petition to stop Robert playing the part of Edward cos 'it just wouldn't work' * An armed robber in America loaded up his bag with cash from the till. He decided he also wanted a bottle of scotch and told the cashier to hand it over - the cashier refused saying he didn't believe the robber was over 21, so the robber handed over his driving license as I.D. Once he had left, all the cashier had to do was call the police and hand over the details he had been given by the dump theif! * There are around 600 calories in a bottle of wine * You might loose your bottle if you get too nervous about something. In Medieval times they actually exaplined the feeling of 'getting butterflies' by assuming butterflies had hatched in your stomach. Not likely to happen, but they were clearly a bit simple * The phrase 'to give someone the cold shouler' comes from Medieval feasts. Hosts did not want to be rude and ask guests to leave at the end of the evening, so to indicate it was time they should be on their way, guests were served the cold left overs of the shoulder meat and they knew to take this as a sign to get their coat * Shoulder rhymes with Moulder. The other half of the famous paranormal crime fighting duo was Scully, played by Gillian Anderson. She apparently stood on an apple box to film many scenes as she is only 5' 2" * The world record for time spent stood up, without sitting down at any point, is exactly 5 years. Why do that? * The World Record for the longest fingernails in the world is 33inches/83cms. Unpleasant * Fingernails are made from the same stuff that your hair is made from * Hair grows from everyone's face The average man will shave more than 20,000 times in his life * A life time is made up of a number years. There are 365 days in a year. When it is not day it is night. The moon travels round the earth at over 2,000mph and is about 4.5 billion years old * Also very old is Bruce Forsyth. Bruce's Great, Great, Great Great Grandfather set up the Royal Horticultural Society. Bruce is also a legend * Bruce Willis had a stammer as a child. So did Marilyn Monroe * When she was 21, Marilyn Monroe was crowned Miss California Artichoke Queen of 1947 * Artichokes are a vegetable. Tomatoes are not a veg of course, they are a fruit. Coconuts are a seed, and they are responsible for 10 times more deaths than sharks every year * Coconuts are a hairy food. Kiwis are also a hairy food. Russell Crowe is a hairy kiwi, and his kids have said they have never watched one of his movies because they 'are not good enough for them to watch'. Charming * The world's most expensive watch has over 900 diamonds decorating it and is worth over $25m! * The world's most expensive saucepan is valued at $209,000. It has gold handles, but can not be used for cooking, only serving! * The manufacturers of that pan are German. In Germany, there are over 1,500 different brands of beer on sale in your average store * The average hedgehog's heart will beat over 300 times a minute! * 'Hearbeat' is a tune by Enrique Inglesias and Nicole from the Pussycat Dolls. 25% of cat owners say they blow dry their cat after a bath (after the cat has had a bath I mean) * Bathonians are people who come from Bath. Tears for Fears met in Bath. (Thats the city of Bath, not the tub) * Newborn babies may cry a lot, but don't actually shed any tears until they are 3 months old * Baby Spice/Emma Bunton's mum was a karate instructor. Her dad was a milkman * Cows are not responsible for most of the world’s methane….termites are! Their high fibre diet means they produce huge amounts of methane which causes global warming * Termites are insects. So are cockroaches. They can change direction 25 times every second! Impressive, but they should learn to be more decisive * Tom Hanks is not 25, he is 54. Tom collects vintage 1940s type writers. WOW! * A very famous typewriter is the Stephen J Cannell, used on the end of various 80s TV shows including '21 Jump St' which starred Johnny Depp. Depp has a phobia of clowns * Clowns have their own way of copywriting their image, it is called the Egg Register * The most expensive eggs ever are Faberge eggs - Coleen Rooney's wedding carriage was modelled on a Faberge Egg * In Germany, there is a wedding custom sometimes practised, where a load of plates are smashed at the ceremony and the happy couple have to clean up the mess to 'prepare' them for married life * "you may now kiss this bride" stems from a Roman tradition of kissing the bride at a wedding service. Romans used a a kiss as a way of signing contracts * Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste! Yuck! * Rats use their tales like radiators to control their body temperature, because they can not sweat * an average, a human has 3 - 4 million sweat glands * Tom Cruise looked sweaty in the volleyball scene in Top Gun. Tom Cruise is left handed * Left handed people are apparently better at seeing underwater?! * The world's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold * Gold is good. A lot of people think that sprouts are bad. This year's sprout harvest has been damaged by frost, so the race is on to grow enough for Christmas, otherwise they may well be a delicacy this year! * Casu Marzu, a pecorino cheese and Sardinian specialty, surely wins among most disgusting cheeses of the world. The direct translation is “rotten cheese” and rightly so: blocks of otherwise beautiful Italian pecorino cheeses are purposely prepared to become the natural breeding grounds for nests of maggots – the cheese is officially illegal, but it can be bought in Italy on the black market * To get that cheese into the UK, you would have to smuggle it. A woman was arrested in April for smuggling her dead 91 year old husband on to a flight at Liverpool airport. She had put him in a wheel chair and put sunglasses on him * Sunglasses were first worn by chinese judges in the 13th Century to conceal their eyes. They used coloured peices of quartz stone * When KFC tried to take their restaurants to China, they translated their slogan "Finger Lickin' Good" in to Chinese. Unfortunately it came out as "Eat Your Fingers Off' * Licking Your Fingers required you to use up some energy. If you were to yell for 8 years, 7months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to reheat a cup of coffee * It would just be easier to buy a microwave. The first microwave was sold in 1947, cost $5000 and was 2 metres tall * Bryan Adams, Mika and Flo Ryda are also 2 metres tall * Mika once wrote a jingle for a chewing gum TV advert and sold it for £45 * The Nike Swoosh logo was designed by a graphic design student in 1971. Nike bought it off her for just $35! * The Greek Goddess 'Nike' was the Goddess of victory. The Greek Goddess of cleanliness was Hygeia, which is where we get the word 'hygeine' * Germs and mites are unpleasant. Everybody has 'demodicids' living on them - mites only 0.4mm long that live on your nose hairs and eye lashes * Some mascaras are still made using fish scales * That is unpleasant, and you wouldn't want that in your stocking. The tradition of hanging stockings by the fire place came from an 1870s Dickens novel when Santa dropped gold coins from his pockets when climbing down the chimney - the children hung the stokckings to catch his loose change! * In 1647 Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas celebrations as he considered them to be impure * In the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell fought King Charles 1. Charles and Eddie amazingly won 3 Ivor Vovello awards for the hit song 'Would I Lie to You?', which is of course a very good song * Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards released 2 singles in Finland, both sung in Finnish * Eddie rhymes with 'Teddy'. The first washable teddy bear was sold in the UK in 1954 * In 1954, Queen Elizabeth II had been Queen for 2 years. She is the only monarch in history to be trained to strip and rebuild a car engine * Elvis was called 'The Kig' but never of course an actual monarch. The pilot of Elvis' private jet was called 'Milo High' * Milo is the name of the dog in 'The Mask'. Jim Carrey tried to become a professional poet before he became an actor, but he was never published * Before she was famous, Jennifer Aniston worked in a call centre * One 30 second advert during the final episode of Friends cost £2m in the UK * The average child will see 20,000 TV ads in a year. By the time we are 65, we will have seen nearly 2 million adverts * The population of the UK is nearly 65 million. The world's population is roughly 6.8 billion. The population of the world has grown more in the last 50 years than in the first 2 million years of human existence * Anthea Turner is 50. Her wedding in 2000 apparently cost £150k and caused controversy as it was alleged she had been sponsored by a chcoloate bar to cover the cost of the wedding, now know as 'Flake-gate' * Tom has an asteroid named after him "12818 tomhanks" * NASA are tracking an asteroid which will come close to earth in 2028. It will be a 'close shave' as it will only travel a 'few million miles away' * 'A Close Shave' was a Wallace & Gromit film. It used 2.8 tonnes of plastercine and took 1 week to record 5 seconds of 'action' * That film starred Shaun the Sheep. American President Woodrow Wilson grazed sheep on the White House Lawn during World War I. The flock included a tobacco-chewing ram. * Chewing tobacco was once considered a cure for toothache. Tobacco is also a relative of the potato! * Chris Martin has a 'famous' relative. His Great Great Grandfather was William Willet who was the man who convinced the nation we should have a British Summer Time He is the reason we put the clocks forward in Spring! * Coldplay have a single called 'Speed of Sound'. When you crack a whip, you do no hear the sound of the whip slapping against itself - you hear the sound of the air around the whip being moved so quickly, it breaks the sound barrier and creates a sonic boom' (like when conchord broke the sound barrier it also went 'boom') * From breaking the sound barrier, to the Great Barrier Reef. Some of the world's largest clams can be found there, with some of the world's largest pearls inside them. One pearl found there sold in New York for $10m (£6.5m) * In Aboriginee, the word 'Kylie' is a type of boomerang * Boomerangs keep coming back, a bit like those annoying twitches we get in our eyelids that nobody else can see but we can feel. In China, a twitch in you left eye lid is a sign that you are about to get some good luck. In Hawaii, it is a sign that a stranger is about to change your world * Ice cream was invented in China in 2000BC when milk and rice mixtures were stored in ice * Rice sounds a bit like Reese - Reese Witherspoon was a gymnast for 7 years and nearly 'made it big' * There is a museum in New Jersey, USA that displays over 5,000 spoons, with atleast one spoon from every country in the world * Alanis Morisette famously sung that she had 10,000 spoons but all she needed was a knife. Alanis has a twin brother who is a yoga instructor * Yoga rhymes with yoda. He was a character in Star Wars - Ewan McGregor played a part in the newer Star Wars films, and he once used hypnotherapy to help him quite smoking * Ewan McGregor starred in Moulin Rouge alongside Nicole Kidman - Nicole's first kiss was on stage at an amateur theatre in Sydney, in a play when she was 14 years old * Russell Crow is from Australia (or is it New Zealand?!). Either way, Russell once starred on his own set of stamps * John Lennon had a stamp collection that sold in 2005 for $53k * Dawn French is 53. In 2004, she was voted 'The Most Inspirational Woman of the Year in a survey of teenage girls * From Inspirational Women, to International Women - Key Perry was nominated for that award at the 2011 Brits. Before making it big, she released 2 albums (one a gospel album) that were pulled from the shelves by her label because sales were so poor * Before William Shakespeare made it big, he once fled his home to avoid being prosecuted for poaching dear. His name is an anagram of 'I am a weakish speller' and it is thought he had a Brummie accent * Duran Duran were from Birmingham, and earned the nickname of 'The Prettiest Boys in Rock' after working with Vivienne Westwood * Vivienne Westwood is an anagram of ''Now Even Wives Do It' * Lee Westwood is a golf player. Jimmy Tarbuck loves golf and hosts his own tournament. In 1985, Jimmy baked a cake for Maggie Thatcher's 60th birthday * Jimmy is the father of Liza Tarbuck, who presented The Big Breakfast. Denise van Outen also presented The Big Breakfast, and she famously went out with JK from Jamiroquai. The song 'Little L' is about JK's demons whilst going through the break up with Denise * JK has lots of hats, arguably too many. The first man to wear a top-hat in public was in 1797. It was frowned upon, and he was arrested and fined £50 for 'behaving in a way designed to frighten timid people' * That scally-wag was a man behaving badly. Leslie Ash was in Men Behaving Badly, although her first TV appearance was as a 4 year old in 1964, when she was in the Fairy ad asking her mummy why her hands were so soft * Leslie Ash is in The Bill. Bill Gates, the owner of Microsoft is reported to earn $250 a second. That is £20m a day (£12m). He's loaded * Bill has lots and lots of bank notes. The currency of Hungary used to be the Pengo, and in 1946 they released the 100 Trillion Pengo note...although it was only worth about US$0.20 * Pengo sounds like Pingu. In 1989, David Hasslehoff released 'The Pingu Rap' in Switzerland. It was a rap song based on short stories of Pingu * The Hoff starred alongside Pamela Anderson in Baywatch. Pammy got her break at a minor league american football game, when she was randomly put up on the big screen whilst just sat in the crowd. She happened to be wearing a t-shirt with a make of beer on it, and that beer company signed her up to be the face of a campaign, based only on the reaction of the fans at the game she had been at * The Guiness beer TV ad in which they play dominoes with cars, took over 600 takes to get right, and the campaign cost £10m * In the first take of the famous 'door scene' in The Shining, Jck Nicholson ad-libbed the line "....heeeerrrreee's Johnny". So they kept it in based on the reaction the crew gave it * Johny Depp was once a pen salesman * Depp starred alongside Keira Knightley in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Keira's nickname as a child was 'Boo' * 'Boo' ryhmes with 'queue'. The longest recorded queue for a theme park ride was at Disney for 'Space Mountain' on New Year's Eve. The queue peaked at 6hours and 3 mins (why bother?!) * Walt Disney's grandparents were French immigrants to the USA, and the family surname is actually 'D'Isigny', said "Diz-nay". However, Walt decided that Disney was easier and more marketable * The Mickey Club which has spawned many people, none more popular than... Ryan Gosling. He won a Golden Globe and everything for being in a chick flick. Not a lot of people knew he was in the Mouse House * Said film was Dear John and the origins of the Dear John letter come from a song about soldiers and they used to open up 1930's radio shows with a Dear John letter * Letters are so 2000 and late, emails are the way forward and the first email was sent in 1971 between 2 computers that were actually next to each other. * The French call the '@' sign a 'petit escargo' whicn means 'Little Snail' * Snails have over 14,000 teeth, all of which are on their tongue * The world's longest human tongue was measured at 9.3cm * The shortest over movie was called 'The One Second Movie' that lasted 1 second. The remaining 89 minutes are about the making of the film * cling film was invented in 1953 by a scientist who was trying to make a hard plastic cover for his car. The experiment went wrong, but he checked the floppy clear plastic that he had made was ok for food, and he made his millions! * The Queen's Coronation was in 1953. Coronation Street was only supposed to last 13 episodes when it was first commisioned * The movie 'Friday 13th' cost just $0.5m to make, but grossed $40m * Most movie stars are loaded and don't need a second job. Freddie Prinze Jnr however, did get a second job. He didn’t do bar work in the evening, but he did join the script writing and creative team at the WWE Wrestling company * At Wrestlemanie 1984, cyndi Lauper (?!) played the part of a wrestler's manager. This meant that wrestling was show live on MTV * Cyndi sang 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'. There is little evidence to suggest that blondes have more fun, but there is research that suggests blonde cashiers in the supermaket have bigger queues because more people choose their till as they look 'calmer' * According to moneymagpie, supermarkets always place bright, colourful items at trolley level, so that your little one sat in the trolley can grab things and make a fuss until you cave in and buy it! * Trolley rhymes with Holly. The 'Hollywood' sign was built in 1929 as an 18 month advertisement. It initially said 'Hollywoodland' but the 'land' was sold off in 1949 to raise some cash * Hollywood sign was destroyed in 1970’s – it was saved by two unlikely friends… Alice Cooper and Hugh Hefner. Alice Cooper has a golf course, it’s motto? ‘Make the Ball Bleed’ * Kenny G the popular saxophonist is a massive golf fan and has played at Alice’s course along with other major events * People believe that the sax solo in Baker St was played by Bob Holeness. It wasn’t, it was someone else. But Bob Holeness didn’t just do Blockbusters.. he played James Bong in South Africa on the radio * Daniel Craig's officially verified autograph attracts a minimum bid in the States of $150 * Marilyn Monroe didn't know how to spell her name when approached by an autograph hunter, as that was just a name given to her by her manager. Her real name was Norma * Monroe rhymes with J-Lo. She is the only woman to ever top the FHM Sexiest Woman in the World poll twice * From J-LO to Hidee-HI. "Hidee-hi" was voted 35th in a Channel 4 poll of best comedy catchphrases. Bruce Forsyth's "Nice to See You!...." was top * Alex Reid is 35. He has acted in 'Sliding Doors' and also been Tom Hank's bodydouble in 'Saving Private Ryan' * Gweneth Pawltrow was n 'Sliding Doors'. In 1998, she was apparently voted the 'most stuck up woman in Hollywood' * In 1998, David Beckham scored a most splendid free-kick in the world Cup in France. Dave has ataxophobia - a fear of disorder * Ataxophobia has the word 'tax' in it. Income tax was introducedin the 1700s as a 'temporary measure' to fund repairs to Navy ships that were protecting the empire * Measure ryhmes with 'treasure'. In 2008, amateur father and son metal detectors found £850k worth of Viking treasure in a field in Yorkshire * Ulrika Johnson is not a viking, but she is from Scandinavia. She apparently has a tattoo of the Manchester Utd logo on her bottom * In 2006, an American woman had the name of a casino tattooed on to her forehead for $10,000 * 83 years before 2006, it was 1923. In that year, King George V! married. Unlike William and Katy, that wedding wasn't even broadcast on radio, in case it was listened to 'in pubs, or other places unsuitable for Royals' * George Clooney was in a comedy in the 1980s called E/R..before making it big in ER, a completely different programme a few years later * Film stars Kate Winslet, Orlando Bloom and Minnie Driver have all made guest appearances in Casualty before they hit Hollywood * Winslet starred with Leonardo Di'Caprio in titanic. Whilst filming 'Blood Diamond', Leo would help out an orhpanage in between days shooting the movie * In 2004, astronomer Travis Metcalfe of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center discovered a diamond star that is 10 billion trillion trillion carats! It's the compressed heart of an old star, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. * James had a song called 'She's a Star' James Corden was nce an actor in Hollyoaks, but left and is reported to ahve said all the actors were only after 'chicken in a basket' style fame * There are more chickens on the planet than people - 3 billion in China alone * From 3 billion to 300. Gerard Butler was voted 'Best Scot' in a 2009 poll * "Great Scot!" was the catchphrase of The Doc in 'Back to the Future'. Originally, the time machine in the films was going to be a fridge, but the idea was scrapped over fears that kids would climb in to freezers nd get trapped * Thomas Midgley, Jr. was an American chemist. He was part of the team that developed leaded fuel, and also the CFCs used to help keep fridges cools – both of which are now known to be pollutants and some believe he is arguably the man solely responsible for the most pollution created in the 20thcentury * Tom Jones spent two years in bed with Tuberculosis * Tom Jones sung 'Delilah'. That looks a bit like 'Delia'. Delia Smith baked the cake seen on the cover of a 1969 Rolling Stones album * In the 17th Century, it was thought that putting fruit cake under your pillow would give you sweet dreams about future spouses * Lime is a fruit. Brits have got the nickname 'limeys' cos British sailors would eat limes - the Vitamin C helped prevent scurvey * Lime rhymes with 'Dime'. In the 1990s, Dime bar advertised their chocoalte with a puppet of an armadillo - the 9 banded armadillo can jump over 4 feet if startled * Star of those adverts was Harry Enfield. He graduated with a degree in Politics, and then became a milk man * In many U.S states, milk costs more than petrol (or 'gas' as they call it) * Florida is a U.S state, which is where you will find the city of Miami. Will Smith sung about that city, and Will Smith is very good at chess * Will was the star of Independence Day - Matt Perry from Friends is also in that film, but very briefly. You can see him clapping in the background when the President makes his inspiring speech. Matthew has got part of his finger missing after a door shutting accident at nursery school * KFC's slogan was once 'Finger Lickin' Good'. It's changed now, but in the 1970s, Bary Manilow sung a jingle for KFC before he was famous * 'Library Woman' is an anagram of Barry Manilow * In libraries you have to be quiet and people go shhhh if you’re not. Not much good for the world’s loudest alarm clock, which is 90 decibels, louder than most lawnmowers and matches the volume pumped out by a speeding lorry on a motorway * Stretches of the M65 were relaid in 1997 cos the traffic noise was disturbing foraging birds * BigBird is a character on Sesame Street. 'The Count' on Sesame street is 2million years old * The first character to swear on Coronation Street was Ken Barlow in 1961. It received 86 complaints * A woman in Vegas made a complaint to the courts after she was kept trapped in her room whilst staying in a hotel. The ‘do not disturb’ sign had been placed on the inside of the door, ready to be used, but the woman assumed the sign was for her and though she was not allowed to enter the corridor. Only after the hotel staff came knocking for her was she discovered * The most expensive hotel room in the world costs £25k a night at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York * One season is summer. Gordon Sumner is Sting, and in the USA 'Every Breath You Take' is the most requested song on radio of all time * Gordon Ramsey would have played pro football had he not torn his cruciate ligaments when playing squash * Stephen Segal played a chef in a movie. He is now a Sherriff * Walker Texas Ranger was played by Chuck Norris. He wrote and sung his own theme tune * Norris rhymes with Borris. Borris Becker’s dad founded a tennis centre just so Borris would have somewhere to practice as a kid, and ultimately become very rich * Becker has lovely ginger hair. Ginger Spice was once banned from a London gym, after she tied her dog to a water cooler whilst she worked out * Rollin Stone magazine once voted ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls as the 8thmost annoying song of all time * Since the dawn of the internet, sales of magazine have gone up by 48% in the UK * Dawn is the name of the receptionist in The Office. Lucy Davis plays that role, who is the daughter of Jasper Carrot * Carrots were originally red, purple and white. Patriotic Dutch famers bred the orange carrot as a tribute to their Royal Family, the 'House of Orange' (duplicate fact alert!!!!) * After Take That split up in 1996, Jason Orange went to Altrincham college to get some A-Levels! *From a band splitting up to split ends. A single human hair can bare the load of a Kit-Kat (4 finger) * Kit-Kats are also a type of pop-up painting which you can clip to your wall * Christina Aguilera is into art. She owns a $25k piece by Banksy * Bart Simpson loves to do graffiti art. His single ‘Do the Bartman’ was #1 in 5 countries * The Simpsons movie was the 5thbiggest grossing animated movie ever. Toy Story 3 is the best selling, making $1.1b at the box office * Also doing well in the world of selling things, are the Black Eyed Peas. The single ‘I Got a Feeling’ has sold 13million copies, and it also features on a McDonalds Happy Meal toy * Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas says her favourite body part is her feet * ‘Elvis Foot’ is rock climber’s jargon for when your leg gets so tired you can’t stop it wobbling * Elvis was a black-belt in karate * 'Karate' looks a bit like 'karaoke'...ish. Karaoke means 'empty orchestra' * Orchestra looks a bit like ostriche (a bit). The ostriche has the biggest eye ball of any land mammal, at a massive 5cm wide * I can't tell the difference between an ostrich and an emu. Rod Hull won the 1993 'Best Pipe Smoker of the Year award'. Well done Rod * Rod Hull & Emu famously attacked Michael Parkinson on his chat show. Parky was the youngest person to ever reach the rank of Captain in the British Army, serving during the 1956 Suez opeation * 114 packets of fish fingers are sold every minute in a supermarket somewhere in the UK, with 15 billion being sold since they launched in 1955 * fingers sounds like findus, who make the crispy pancakes. The largest number of pancakes tossed in the shortest amount of time in the UK is 349 tosses in 2 minutes (Dean Gould at Felixstowe, Suffolk, 14 January 1995). Pancakes are not just food. It is also the name of a wrestling move * The WWE Wrestling style was developed in Lancashire, and called Folk Wrestling * In Lancs, there is the Gravy Wrestling Championships. gravy was first made in 3000BC in Egypt * 30% of Egyptians have a blog * The most read blog in the world is the Huffington Post - over 1 millions hits a day * The Royal Mail can be traced back as far as 1516 when Henry VIII set up the 'Master of Posts' * ‘Post’ is a play in American football. The 2011 Superbowl charged $3m for a 30 second TV ad at half-time * The Superbowl is watched by loads of people. But the record is the final episode of M*A*S*H – 50.1m tuned in * In the olden days there was no TV. So comics were very popular…Issue #1 of ‘Action Comics ft. Superman’ recently sold in auction for $1.5m * The Simpsons cartoon is a worldwide phenomenon – it is shown in 14 separate countries and has been translated in to 5 different languages, including Danish * Seth McFarlane who created the cartoon ‘Family Guy’ got $5 for his first cartoon * Before finding fame, Xtina Aguilera used to be in the Pussycat Dolls when they were just dancers * Nicole Scherzinger’s first job was dressing as a tiger for a fast food chain * Fast Food chains have people that give you food and drink…a bit like a stewardess. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is formally typed with only the left hand * Keyboards can be found on computers. The classic computer game ‘Super Mario’ was originally given the name ‘Jump Man’ * Super Mario was a short man, much like E.T. The sound of E.T walking was made by a man squishing their hands together in jelly * Hands have individual finger prints…and everyone has an individual tongue print * You taste food with your tongue. Food like chips, cakes and donuts…you will burn more calories in a deep sleep than you will doing mild exercise * The longest anyone has gone without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours and 41 minutes. This happened during ‘Rock the Rocking Chair’ competition * From 21 hours, to '21' - Adele's album. In the first 2 months of its release in the UK it was selling 18 copies a minute! * Since being released in 1997, the Harry potter books have sold about 450million world wide * Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel Craig's favourite flavour ice-cream is vanilla * Daneil Craig is of course 007 James Bond. A famous bond villian is 'Jaws' who is massive. He has something called 'acromegly', i.e. giantism. Something that Chris' dad also had. Chris' dad is therefore also massive! * Chris Dad is great. but in a poll of worst Celeb dad's on celebrific.com, #5 on the list was Tom Cruise. Tom is 5'7" and so is the same height as Pamela Anderson and shorter than Celine Dion * In her High School year book, Pammy Anderson said it was her dream to be a 'Californian beach bum' * California is the Orange County. 'The OC' starred Mischa Barton..she also played the part of the child ghost that pushes out the box from under the bed in the 'Sixth Sense' * Bruce Willis bought 12,000 boxes of "Girl Guide" cookies from his daughter Tallulah, then 8, to send to American troops serving in Afghanistan in 2002 * Celebs who were once Girl Guides include Cat Deeley, Lorraine Kelly, Anita Roddick, Helen Sharman (the first British woman in space), Olympic athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson, Emma Thompson, Carole Vorderman, Carol Smillie, Davina McCall * davina has a tattoo of horns on her hip and an alien on her bottom * The Big Brother theme tune sold 200,000 copies, making it the best selling theme tune since 'Teletubbies say Eh Oh'...(agreat track) * My Dad's big brother is called Robert. So Bob really is my uncle. The phrase Bob's your uncle' is rumoured to come from the 1880s when the then Prime Minister called Robert Salisbury gave a very highly paid job to his nephew, despite the fact he had never shown an interest in politics. People started telling him that things had worked out well for him because 'Bob's your Uncle' * Bob Monkhouse's grandad owned a custard powder factory * 'Grandad' was a character in Only Fools and Horses, starring the genius David Jason. David is a fully qualified electrician * If you give yourself a mild electic shock you might shout out the words "blinkin' 'eck!". A survery suggest women get twice as much satisfication than men from blinking. Wowzas! * 'Wowzas' rhymes with 'trousers'. A survbery by a UK Dept. Store suggests that on average you can accurately predict a man's age based only on the level of his waistline * When you think of a high waistline, you think of Simon Cowell. Simon's sister's husband is the cousin of Robbie Williams * Robbie is now bezzy mates again with Gary Barlow. Gary is the proud owner of a Blue Peter Gold badge! * Robbie played some massive gigs at Knebworth. In 1996, so did Oasis - 250,000 saw them live, but 2.6 million tried to get tickets! * Cliff Richard also played Knebworth (1993). Cliff was once a filing secretary for a company who made lamps * Lamps can be found in an office, much like a clock. All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4.20 * There is the letter 'i' in 'fiction'. The . above the lower case i'' is called a tittle * The word 'tittle' does not rhyme with 'coin'. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.* Tossing a coin 10,000 would be a bit boring. Much like playing golf. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball * Gold players wear lovely trousers, which they probably hang in their wardrobe on a caot hanger. If you stretch out a wire coat hanger, it will be 44 inches long * From coat hangers to Cliff Hangers. The phrase 'cliff hanger' comes from Hollywood in the 1910s when they made lots of serial short films. In each one, the star would be left in a seemingly hopeless situation such as being cornered by a lion or left hanging over a cliff by their finger nails * Charlie Chaplin was an early Hollywood star. 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' did not star Charlie Chaplin, but it was very good. The original book by Mr R Dahl had a character removed from the final edit, as her death in the factory was too gruesome * One single chocolate chip provides enough energy for an adult to walk 150 yards * Chocloate Chip is a type of cookie, as loved by the Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street website gets over 1 million visitors a day! * My girlfriend says 'sesame' as if it was spelt 'zezame'. It's quite annoying for some reason. 'Z' is the first letter of Zebadee on the Magic Roundabout - that programme was written by Emma Thompson's dad * Emma Thompson was great in Love Actually. Also brilliant in that movie was Rowan Atkinson, as the over-the-top gift wrapper in the department store. Mr Bean was originally to be called 'Mr Cauliflower' * Couliflower is a vegetable like cabbage, a key ingredient of coleslaw. The Roman Emperor Caso invented coleslaw * Also a vegetable is corn. The world record for eating corn on the cob is 33 1/2 ears in 12 minutes, held by Cookie Jarvis * Mr Sanders starting selling fried chicken from a make-shift diner at his petrol station in Kentucky USA. It was so good, the state made him an honourary Colonel * A chciken is the closest living relative to the T-Rex (repeat fact?!) * Marty McFly hated being called a chicken. 'Back to the Future' was nearly called 'Spaceman from Pluto' until a last minute change * There is a scene in Back to the Future II when a small disc is put in the microwave and it comes out as a large hot pizza. 360 slices of pizza are eaten in America every second * There are 360 degrees in a circle. 'Zodiac' literally means 'Circle of Animals' * Libra is a sign of the Zodiac. Maggie Thatcher is a Libra - she was part of the chemsitry team that invented whippy ice-cream!* 5% of pet woners share their ice cream with their pet * Hamsters are allergic to cheese * People who suffer from electrosensitivity are allergic to technology. Mobile phones, laptops and flat screen TVs can bring them out in rashes, give them migraines and even chest pains * 1,000 new mobile phones are activated every minute world wide * Every 60 seconds, Oprah Winfrey will reportedly earn $528 * Tom Cruise once made a wolly of himself as a guest on Oprah. His wife Katie Holmes shares a birthday with Brad Pitt - Brad quit Uni 2 weeks before graduating with a journalism degree. He now though earns an average of £25m per movie, so it was perhaps a good call * When growing up, Angelina Jolie wanted to be a funeral director * Jolie was in the movie 'Tomb Radier' based on the video game. The movie 'Street Fighter' was also based on a video game and starred Kylie. 20 million people tuned in to watch the Neighbours episode when Kylie married Jason * Jason is a contestant on the 2011 Strictly Come Dancing, hosted by Bruce Forsyth. As well as hosting 'The Generation Game' Bruce also wrote and sung the theme tune * The star of the Generation Game was the cuddly toy. In the early 1900s, adults would carry around teddy bears as a fashion accessory * Teddy is a shortened version of the name Edward. Edward Scissorhands was played by the lovely Johnny Depp. Johnny had previous jobs as a gasman and a pen salesman * All pencils were once round. But they made them hexagonal to stop them rolling off desks. WOW! * From rolling off desks, to Rolling in the Deep. Adele's middle name is 'Blue' * Blue band member Antony Costa had a part in Grange Hill * Costa was once in I'm a Celeb. In the jungle in 2011 is Dougie from Mcfly. After his TB jab, he feinted infront of the whole school * Girls often feint at boy bands, like N-sync. Justin Timberlake is rumoured to ahve had voice coaching in 2006 so that he didn't sounjd like a small child when he spoke. He was then able to land some big Hollywood roles * Timberlake was on the Black Eye Peas single 'Where is the Love?'. Fergie was the voice of Sally inthe Charlie Brown and Snoopy cartoons! * Charlie Chaplin once famously came 2nd in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition * David Beckham's first ever car was a 2nd hand Ford Escort * David Beckham has ben playing his football in America where he is getting paid lots fo $. There are 20 lamp posts on a US $ bill * Paris is called the 'City of Lights' cos it was the first city in the world to have electric street lights * Paris Hilton's favourite game is golf * The Cardigans had a song called 'Favourite Game'. The Earl of Cardigan was expelled from chool after a fist fight with his Georgraphy teacher * Geography includes maps. Maps will include places such as Berlin, Lincoln and Llangollen. Also on a mp (of America) is Los Angeles. Years back, LA was part of Mexico and its full name was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula (Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angeles of the Small Portion) * LA is anAmerican city, as is New York. Friends is based in New York. Lisa Kudrow had a nose job when she was 16 * Courtney Cox had a part in the 1987 filme 'Master of the Universe', based on the kids 'He-Man' cartoon * Joss Stone was born in 1987. Her Dad runs a company that imports dried fruit and nuts * Peanuts are not nuts. They are peas * Will.I.Am is inthe Black Eyed Peas. He is good friends will Cheryl Cole. Her dad is called Gary. Her Brother is called Garry * Gary Numan stole his stage name (Gary Numan) from a plumber in the Yellow Pages * Plumbers install toilets. The film 'Physc' was the first movie to ever show a toilet flsing and it caused 1,000s of complaints in America about indecency * Toilets can be found in bathrooms. As can showers. The longest ever shower was 340 hours (14 days) by a man with the nick-name 'Cat Fish' * Chris @ Hometime once went 4 1/2 years without washing his hair. Throughout this time he was single * Between May '97 and Sept 2001 was the Millenium. That was also a single by Robbie, who once worked as a florist * Robbie was also once a double-glazing salesman. Double glazing helps keep out the cold. Snow is cold. The biggest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide! * Hannah Montana was played by Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus' God Mother is Dolly Parton * Dolly the Sheep was the first animal to be a clone. In 1999, a poodle killed 20 sheep in a field in Devon by scaring them to death * Chris Martin is from Devon. Before being called 'Coldplay', Coldplay were called 'Pectoralz', 'Big Fat Noises' and 'Starfish' * Toadfish is/was a character in Neighbours. The guy that plays him, Ryan Moloney, appeard as a one of character called Cyborg in 1994 * The fictional town of Erinsbrough (in which Neighbours is set), is an anagram of Neighbours * 16.6m people watch the live Eastenders to find out who had killed Archie Mitchel on Christmas Day * Before goose, and beforeturkey, the traditional Christmas Day lunch was a pig's head with mustard * The best selling Christmas single is Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' which has sold 50 million copies worldwide since 1942 * In spai, Italy and Greece, it is law that workers get an exta month's pay as a Christmas bonus! * Nancy Dell'olio is Italian. The best selling sandwich filling at Nancy Dell'olio's Dad's deli, was salami * From deli, to belly. A recent survey suggest that the average wine drinker will gain 1/2 stone a year in fat if they do not exercise * Stats show that if you eat the same size meal from a smaller plate, you will feel 24% more full up after! * Someone who looks like they need a good meal is Kate Middleton. 'That' dress she wore at a student fashion show was sold in auction in 2011 for £78k! * Pippa Middleton was beaten in the 2011 Rear of the Year competition by Carole Vorderman. Carole's Great-Grandfather, Adolphe, discovered vitamins * Americans say 'vitamins' wrong, much lke they say 'tomatoes' wrong'. Tomatoes increase metabolism and are loaded with anti-oxidants to cleans your system *
Bored? Today's video of the day will help you be a little less bored, for just a couple of minutes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QqfEYNRlc Blimey that is bad.
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Chris has embraced Twitter! For years he assumed it was rubbish, but it hasn't gone away so he thought he would try it properly.....
Follow him and do a Tweet on him @chrishometime
(The A and M are his middle names, feel free to guess what the names are and text in. You won't get them both!)











