20 01 06 221 W - + 5 - 6 Pete Goes Ape?

For those of you who have missed out on the Pete Burns 'gorilla fur' scandalette, let me bring you up to date. For the last couple of weeks, Pete has been locked up in a house with an assorted bunch of "celebs" (some of whom, I have to say, I'd never even heard of before ) in Britain's Big Brother TV show. Pete went in wearing a fur coat which he claimed was made of gorilla skin. Now, if you've ever seen a gorilla in a zoo, one of the things you may have noted is that their fur is a bit on the rough and manky side - not the sort of thing you'd expect someone to want turned into a coat. Well, anyway, that didn't prevent people taking Pete at his word. Gorillas being an endangered species, a protest was made, police were called in, the coat was seized and taken away for analysis by people who specialise in this sort of thing...

News came through today that the coat wasn't a gorilla skin after all. It was, in fact, made from the fur of the colobus monkey. Apparently, experts said: "the coat was in a 'relatively poor condition' and had been relined at some point." Bah, have they no sense of chvalry!

The full story HERE