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Chris Packham collects animal poo and keeps it above his wardrobe

News is that people send BBC telly’s Chris Packham poo in the post. We’ve had a few missives like that at Anorak. We forward the keepsakes to Hollywood director John Walters and two girls in the USA for their cup. But Chris says these are gifts, rather than comments on his presenting style.

“My agent complains about it,” says Chris, who presents wildlife shows, “but I don’t mind… People send me bits of dead things. The weirdest was a woman…”

Stop it there and you’ve got a dark tale. But after the briefest of pauses, Chris continues, “…a woman who posted me a dried-up slug which she found on her carpet and failed to identify. I’ve still got it. I keep everything. I have boxes and boxes above my wardrobe.”

First up, Chris must be the only TV star who doesn’t own fitted wardrobes, preferring a hipster-friendly armoire. Second, keeping your own turds in a filing cabinet would be unusual; keeping moth turds near your clothes is asking for trouble.

And thirdly: given the high price of postage, horse poo is best delivered by car.

Posted: 8th, February 2016 | In: Celebrities | Comment


BBC To Make ‘Embryo To Sofa’ Show About The Human Virus

CHRIS Packham is auditioning for the roll as David Attenborough’s Voice of God in Radio Times. But whereas Dave was for life, Packham is, apparently, for death. Life on Earth is now Death To Humanity. Says Packham, a BBC telly presenter of natural history stuff:

“There’s no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we’re not addressing the one single factor that’s putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other…”

Trees, right? Those fucking trees.

“… namely the ever-increasing size of the world’s population.”

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Posted: 5th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment