After enraging his UK Celebrity Big Brother housemates–not to mention PETA sympathizers everywhere–by claiming his coat was made from the fur of endangered gorillas, former Dead or Alive frontman Pete Burns has been proven wrong.
The coat is not made of endangered gorilla fur. The coat is made of colobus monkey fur…which has been illegal to import to Britain since 1975, so Pete’s coat was confiscated for analysis to determine its age (and Pete’s further legal ramifications, if any).
Well, turns out Pete won’t be moving from the Big Brother house to the Big House just yet: the Crown Prosecutors Service indicated that “judging by its poor condition…the pelts had likely been imported sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.”
Is anyone else grossed out by the idea of wearing 75-year-old dead monkey skins on their back?
I mean, I know vintage is the new black, and all, but, dude, seriously: Buy yourself a new coat. That’s just nasty.
