Daniel Radcliffe isn’t the squeaky clean boy wizard some “Harry Potter” fans think he is.
The star of the flicks based on the wildly successful fantasy books appeared in an off-color skit, dressed as a Boy Scout, propositioning an older woman (played by Dame Diana Rigg) and playing with a condom.
The skit has been picked up by YouTube, where it’s drawing some outrage, but mostly amusement.
“[Oh my God], when I was watching it was like ... I’ve never seen that side of Dan,” exclaimed one fan. “Normally I just see the sweet sort of well-mannered quirky Dan, not THAT!"
Don't hassle the HoffWas David Hasselhoff drunk on live TV? That’s what some outraged viewers claimed after the former “Baywatch” star appeared on the UK’s GMTV droopy-eyed, slurring his words, and mispronouncing the name of his “Click” co-star Adam Sandler as “Adam Sanglier.”
The show reportedly received hundreds of calls from annoyed viewers, but a spokesman for the network insists the star wasn’t snockered.
“He was extremely tired because of his massive promotional tour which has been going on for three weeks now,” a rep told the London Daily Mail. “But he did everything we wanted him to do. His behavior might not have been ‘dead-on’ but it was first thing in the morning. We do not believe he was drunk. There was no smell of alcohol.”
But a source at another show, who asked to remain unnamed, said that when Hasselhoff showed up there, “It was first thing in the morning and he sure smelled like booze to me —either that, or he’s using some pretty odd-scented aftershave.”
In yet another interview, Hasselhoff confirmed what some fans of his series “Knight Rider” always suspected: that Kitt, the talking car, was, in fact, gay. And he had the hots for his driver.
“We have some fairly X-rated outtakes on Knight Rider,” Hasselhoff told startled students at Trinity College in Dublin. “Kitt was constantly asking: ‘Do you want me to take you home Michael?’ in that very camp voice of his.”
Notes from all overOrlando Bloom is supposedly dating Tom Cruise’s ex, Penelope Cruz, which has conspiracy theorists buzzing. . . . Janet Jackson says she’s working on a duet with Mariah Carey. The breast-baring singer also tells Blade magazine that fans are upset that MTV is apparently still boycotting her by refusing to show her new video because of that Super Bowl incident — while it plays videos by bodice-ripper Justin Timberlake. “The fans get upset and talk about boycotting [MTV],” Jackson told the mag. “It is what it is, but I’m not losing sleep over it.” . . . . . . Tracy Morgan says that the underwear scene in the opening of “30 Rock” is not — as many have suspected — poking fun at Martin Lawrence, who police found armed and screaming at a Los Angeles intersection in 1996. “They act like [Lawrence] cornered the market on meltdowns... But do you know how many [bleeps] have meltdowns in the ghetto? I did that [bleep] based on my father,” Morgan tells the new issue of Complex. “He tried to jump off the roof twice. When I was six years old, he was on dust, running down the street with no drawers on with a frying pan in his hand wearing a crash helmet.”
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