Hollywood star Mickey Rourke stunned airline staff when he turned up with a suit case weighing 5 1/2 -stone… packed full of SHOES.
Hellraiser Rourke’s bulging bag of loafers was over the weight limit. So before he could check in at Heathrow for his £2,500 first-class BA flight to New York, he had to redistribute his shoes among his other suitcases.
Legendary womaniser Rourke, 56, was on his way home on Wednesday after an eight-day stay in London, where he had won a best actor BAFTA for his role in hit movie The Wrestler.
“It was really weird and extraordinary to watch, ” said an airline source. “Five-and-a-half stone – 36kg – of shoes is one heck of a lot of shoes, especially for a bloke.
“Staff thought at first he must have had his BAFTA in the case.
“It was freezing cold but he had no socks on and a pair of blue slip-ons with very low heels. And it turned out that he had about 40 pairs of shoes very similar to the ones he was wearing in the case.
“It’s the sort of thing you’d expect of Victoria Beckham, but not of a tough guy like Mickey Rourke.”
The multi-award winning Wrestler is Rourke’s big comeback film after years in the wilderness caused by drugs and drinking .
With obvious parallels to Rourke’s own life story, the movie tells the story of a washed-up fighter’s last shot at the big time.
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