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I just received this press release:

Nick Frost talks to this week's Nuts Magazine about;
Sideburns
His first screen kiss
Chris Moyles and
Snogging Amy Winehouse

PLEASE CREDIT NUTS, ON SALE TOMORROW, WITH ANY QUOTES USED

So, what was it like to grow sideburns?
The same as any hair, really. It’s not like I lay there and hear it growing at night.

If you were to play a current Radio 1 DJ, which DJ do you look most like?
You’re obviously angling for Chris Moyles, so I’ll say Edith Bowman. It’d be a great piece of casting for me to play a young Edith.

In the movie, you snog Gemma Arterton. Did you clean your teeth beforehand?
Gemma was my first screen kiss, so I made sure I had Tic Tacs on hand and brushed two or three times before, yeah.

If you have to snog Amy Winehouse in your next film, will you insist she has a bath beforehand?
I’d like to think that Amy is a proper gent and would do that without being asked.

I know the golden rule is know your market, but what sort of questions are these? The first one is so lame it's unbelievable. Nick Frost clearly finds them tiresome, batting them away like they're a swarm of irritating flies.

If I were the editor of Nuts I'd be embarrassed to have this out there. Is this the standard of questions being asked by the writers? It's just not trying hard enough is it. Or is it trying too hard?

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The former

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SirTerence | 6 April 2009 - 12:27pm

Remember the target market

Although it's aimed towards men (for legal reasons, I presume), Nuts is predominantly read by 14 year old boys. Therefore, growing sideburns, being Chris Moyles and snogging... well, anyone really are all subjects that they'd be very interested in.

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Joe R | 6 April 2009 - 12:38pm

I'd've thought

That if you're working for a magazine called Nuts, you're well beyond embarrassment anyway.

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Sgt Pluck | 6 April 2009 - 12:47pm

Am I alone in not even knowing who...

..Nick Frost is anyway? Whoever he is/was/wants to be, it doesn't sound like he has much to say...

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Colin H | 6 April 2009 - 1:09pm

Who

is Nick Frost?

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Mark JF | 6 April 2009 - 1:09pm

He's...

...Jonathan Wilkes to Simon Pegg's Robbie Williams.

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Paolo Meccano | 6 April 2009 - 1:32pm

Only funnier and more talented...

Than both Pegg and Wilkes - Think of a funny James Corden

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Six Dog | 6 April 2009 - 2:50pm

I dont

have that much imagination

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Molesworth | 6 April 2009 - 11:25pm

Ah,

...I see that I'm not!

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Colin H | 6 April 2009 - 1:10pm

nick frost

is the chubby chap in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz etc. Now he's in the Boat That Rocked.

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badartdog | 6 April 2009 - 1:17pm

Isn't he

Simon Pegg's fat mate?
The sideburns line reminds me of a Tony Husband cartoon which must be at least 20 years old.
The scene is a suburban living room, in the middle of which sits a man in an archair, clenching his fists and eyes, with a look of intense strain and concentration on his face. At the door of the room his wife explains to a guest, 'Gerald is trying to grow a beard.'

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Gatz | 6 April 2009 - 1:18pm

Aren't they a little old

to still be flatmates? Unless, of course, there's more to it than that...

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Five-Centres | 6 April 2009 - 1:40pm

No, no, I said

'fat mate', not 'flat mate' ... oh, never mind.

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Gatz | 6 April 2009 - 2:00pm

Sorry, I misread that

...but weren't they flatmates too?

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Five-Centres | 6 April 2009 - 2:18pm

This is a script

from 'Terry & June' surely? Funnier than Nuts anyway.

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Steven C | 6 April 2009 - 10:34pm

They split up

Pegg is the new Scottie from Star Trek. Yeah right...

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Beany | 6 April 2009 - 11:28pm

Carrying on my theme from the Rod Liddle thread...

Nuts? That's very nearly an anagram, isn't it?

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Silvermute | 6 April 2009 - 10:52pm
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