Tony Hawks Films With A Fridge...
Tony Hawks is in Ireland this week folks and before you run out to get your skateboard signed, we're talking about quirky British comedian Tony Hawks. Not the other fella. Rather than a piece of plywood on wheels, Tony has taken a different bedfellow on his trip to these shores. A humble fridge...
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Cumbersome white kitchenware isn't generally considered the usual thing you take on a foreign holiday. But that didn't stop UK funny man Tony Hawks putting his fridge under his arm and making his way to Ireland.
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Some years ago the comic was bet in a pub that he couldn't take a humble fridge and hitchhike around Ireland. Well, he took-up that bet and thus the bestselling book was conceived, predictably called: 'Round Ireland With A Fridge'...
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Such was the success of his zany adventures with said fridge that now the book is being made into an Irish movie starring Mr. Tony Hawks and his blanco cuboid chum.
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Tony Hawks' Fridge |
We caught up with Tony and the icebox as they shot scenes for the film outside The Purty Kitchen in Temple Bar yesterday. Strange sight you say? Not really. Seeing a man walking around with a fridge is considered pretty tame in the bohemian area of the city famed for hen & stag parties all over Europe.
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