Andrew Lloyd Webber has said he disliked the 2019 film adaptation of his musical Cats so much he bought a dog. Speaking to Variety magazine, Lloyd Webber described the film as “off-the-scale all wrong” and said it left him so “emotionally damaged” he bought a dog in order to recover. “So the one good thing to come out of it is my little Havanese puppy,” he added.
Turkish man has world’s biggest nose
A man in Turkey has the world’s longest nose, Guinness World Records has confirmed. The huge hooter of Mehmet Ozyurek, 71, comes in at an impressive 3.5 inches (8.8cm). However, the longest recorded nose in history belonged to Thomas Wedders. The 18th-century Yorkshireman’s sensational snout measured a formidable 7.5 inches (19cm).
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Halloween font makes inadvertent rude message
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