22 June 2006

The price of fame

Industrial injuries can be serious and painful. Normally I can sympathise but not on this occasion. The Evening News reports:
"NOEL EDMONDS is suffering from repetitive strain injury from having to keep picking up the phone on his TV game show Deal or No Deal.
The 57-year-old presenter was diagnosed with the unusual occupational injury after he complained of agonising pain in his right elbow...
It was picking up the phone to answer the Banker's calls that apparently caused Edmonds' injury. He said: "The phone is pretty heavy and I have to pick it up a dozen times a show. We shoot three shows a day and it got so painful that I could hardly pick the bleeding thing up."
Imagine having to pick up a heavy (?) phone a dozen times. Doesn't your heart bleed for the poor wee soul?

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