HERE is Hollywood star Colin Farrell as you’ve never seen him before — in a thong on RTE. The Irish Sun can reveal the incredible footage of the hunky Dubliner, 45, after it was found on an old VHS collection.
Nowadays the star is disguising his good looks playing tubby baddy The Penguin in The Batman. But in 1994, then 18-year-old Farrell bared all as a model on long forgotten RTE lunchtime chat show 12-2-1.
Hosts Marty Whelan and Ciana Campbell and a panel including Fair City’s Tony Tormey and late newspaper editor Paddy Murray, had no idea they were looking at a future superstar in the nip when Marty declared: “First on we have Colin, who’s wearing very little . . . ”.
And when the skimpy outfit is revealed to be a thong costing £19.99, late much-loved journo Paddy jokes: “You’d get six decent white fronts in Dunnes for that.
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