Following the improbable, but hilarious, news yesterday that
Alan 'Jonathan Creek' Davies sunk his
teeth into a tramp earlier this week in a drunken fit of madness outside the Groucho, we got to thinking about our
Top Five Celebrity Biting Incidents...
So here we go...
5. Ozzy Osbourne and the bat
Ozzy apparently did it by mistake: "A fan threw it on stage and I thought it was a toy.It must have been stunned by the lights because it looked dead when I picked it up. I put it in my mouth as a joke. Its wings started flapping and I ripped it out of my mouth but its head came off!"
4. Mike Tyson on Evander Holyfield
Nineteen ninety-seven's so called 'bite fight' cost Tyson $3m in fines as well as a chance at the world title. Great TV though.
3. Anything by Dracula
Sorry...
2. BBC Director General Mark Thomson on BBC News colleague Anthony Massey
This is how Massey tells it...
"It was late summer or early autumn of 1988 when Thompson was the newly appointed editor of the Nine O'Clock News and I was a home news organiser.
"I was standing next to him on his right and he was sitting reading his horoscope. Before I could say a word he suddenly turned, snarled and sank his teeth into my left upper arm (leaving marks through the shirt, but not drawing blood). It hurt. I pulled my arm out of his jaws, like a stick out of the jaws of a labrador."
(Maybe Greg Dyke would still have his job if he'd just sunk his teeth into Alastair Campbell's leg.)
1. Alan Davies bites tramp
OK, so like with all nostalgia programmes and festive countdowns*, we've blindly gone for the most recent thing, eliminating the need to for any meaningful thought or discussion.
*See Virgin Radio listeners voting 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol as THE BEST SONG EVER last year.
Any more good biting incidents?