We can’t say we ever thought UK comic Jimmy Carr and GWS rookie Jason Gillbee would ever have a purpose to speak. Or even know of one another’s existence.
Yet the Brit was left shocked by the milk-loving Giant’s story after they got here face-to-face on Ten’s The Project on Wednesday night.
Gillbee started this yr as maybe essentially the most nameless AFL participant attainable – a NSW zone choice by the rebuilding Giants, who will start his footy profession as a class B rookie.
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Yet one story modified every part, because it was revealed Gillbee drinks milk as a substitute of water.
Like, on a regular basis. Just drowns himself in it. Guzzles it down. Chugs away on the stuff.
Perhaps unsurprisingly this startling revelation has seen Gillbee doing the media rounds – with folks largely asking some variation on the identical query: “Why??????” Then, as a follow-up, “how???!?”
After talking to a lot of the sports activities media world, Gillbee popped up on the sunshine nightly news present, the place he first answered the apparent query.
“It’s just the taste of it. It’s a taste thing, a flavour, texture thing, no other real reason. It helps me put on a bit of weight but I just love the taste of it,” he defined.
Then it was the flip of Carr, a fairly buttoned-up 50-year-old deadpan comic, to have a crack at Gillbee.
He started with: “I think we’ve buried the lead on this story. I think the headline is: ‘World’s Largest Toddler Also Plays Aussie Rules’.”
Gillbee cracked up, however Carr wasn’t finished.
“A personal question, my young friend – when did you stop breastfeeding? Was there a transition period?” he requested.
Gillbee tried to reply, saying “I don’t actually know,” however that noticed Carr bounce again in and say “you don’t know?! Are you still breastfeeding now?!”
“No, not any more,” the Giants utility bizarrely needed to clarify on reside TV, “I’m not actually sure what age it was. I don’t think I went that long but yeah, who knows?”
After just a few extra cheap questions – when Gilbee defined he doesn’t like different milks and his teammates had been a bit puzzled by his behavior – Carr got here again.
“Am I correct in saying you’re yet to debut at senior level? Because, same here, and I wonder what’s holding me back – possibly my milk consumption?” he joked.
Gillbee responded comparatively comfortably, saying “Yeah, I dunno, if that’s what’s holding me back – I don’t know if I’d even give it up then, still…”
Carr jumped again in: “Sorry, does he not know that milk is legal? He’s talking about milk like it’s crystal meth! It’s milk, you’re allowed to drink milk!”
Gillbee responded: “That’s what I think as well, but sometimes I think people think the other way.”
Naturally the interview concluded with Gillbee chugging the rest of a two-litre bottle of milk he’d been engaged on by means of the… nicely, presumably the final hour fairly than the entire day – after which tipped it over his head.
“He may be the most Australian man I’ve ever seen,” Carr concluded.
Originally revealed as ‘Are you still breastfeeding now?’: Comedian’s roasts AFL rookie’s milk obsession
Source: www.news.com.au
