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Eddie Izzard vs the beret bandit

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• Kevin Hart does 1,000 sit-ups a day.

• A man has been arrested after Eddie Izzard's pink beret was yanked off his head at the March For Europe protest yesterday. The comedian, and multiple marathon runner, gave chase through Whitehall after a man in a bandana grabbed the hat. A total of six police officers and two liaison officers  were involved in the arrest after the beret bandit was wrestled  to the ground. David Czerwonko, 26, of Clitherow Road, Brentford, has been charged with theft and bailed until September 19 – and the beret has since been taken away by police as evidence.

Tim Minchin has put his art deco home in the Sydney suburb of Coogee up for rent, at £2,135 (AU$3,750) a week. That’s twice as much as the next house in the area. Minchin paid £3.5million (AU$5.9 million) for the five-bedroom, five-bathroom property in July. Comedian Naz Osmanoglu is 17th in line to the Turkish throne, should the country ever revert to being a Monarchy. In the UK, the same position is held by Princess Anne’s two-year-old granddaughter Mia.

• Remember that time Gene Wilder starred in his own sitcom, Something Wilder, and when Alice Cooper guested? Probably not... but here's that episode from 1995:

• The flat Frank Skinner once shared with David Baddiel is now occupied by Jon Culshaw. Skinner recently returned there to film his On Demand With... iPlayer interview series and recalled: 'I went into my old bedroom, which was quite special. 'There was a weird bit where we sat on the sofa and he did an impression of David Baddiel and I thought, "This is just too weird now!" I bored him to death with stories of the old days - about when Dave used to wear a slightly too short and not-as-securely-fastened-as-it-could-be towelling dressing gown in the mornings.' His reminiscences came on his Absolute Radio show

• You may have seen this already. But someone yelled ‘show us your tits’ at Amy Schumer as she performed in Stockholm this week…This is how she dealt with it:

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Published: 4 Sep 2016

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