Last updated: Tuesday, March 27, 2007
MERCHANT TURNS DOWN NAKED OFFER
EXTRAS star STEPHEN MERCHANT turned down the chance to pose completely nude for Cosmopolitan, because he feared bosses at the women's magazine were mocking him.
Stephen Merchant at 'Hot Fuzz' - UK film premiere held at Vue West End. London, England - 13.01.07
At six foot seven inches (2.1 metres) tall, the writer/comedian has never thought of himself as a sex symbol and can't imagine anyone wanting to pay to see him naked in one of the magazine's famous male centrefolds.
Merchant tells London radio station Heart, "I don't know what the pose was but I got the feeling they were taking the mick a bit.
"They said, 'We've had a survey of our readers and you're one of the top choices.' Yeah right, like the readers of Cosmo have rushed out thinking, 'We've gotta get the lanky guy out of Extras. He's the man for me.'
"I think it's the fear that it'll be out there then and it'll follow you around for years. I don't want to ever look back at myself naked."
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Source: WENN
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