Ross Noble admits on Radio X he started a bizarre George Foreman rumour
Comedian Ross Noble joined Chris Moyles on Radio X this morning and revealed he was behind a long-running rumour that boxing legend George Foreman had no fingerprints.
Noble, known for his surreal storytelling, told Chris, Dominic Byrne and James Robinson that the false rumour began years ago as a joke with friends.
“I started one that George Foreman has no fingerprints,” he said. “It got online, and people genuinely think it’s true.”
Moyles and his team later discovered that Foreman himself had once mentioned losing his fingerprints in a chemical accident in his autobiography – a coincidence Noble found hilarious. “That sounds like something I’d make up,” he laughed.
The comedian also shared another extraordinary tale involving veteran entertainer Bernie Clifton, famous for his ostrich costume act.
Noble said he once heard that Clifton had bought a microlight aircraft, painted it like an ostrich and wrote it off against tax – a rumour he thought was nonsense until he met Clifton himself.
“I said, ‘You’ve never had a microlight, have you?’ and he went, ‘Yeah, it’s called Ostrich One!’” Noble recalled.
The conversation prompted Moyles to joke about a “Moyles-Clifton reconciliation” after their past on-air feud, while Noble dubbed it “a healing moment on stage!”
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