February 25, 2007
Ewan McGregor breaks leg in bike crash
Ewan McGregor has broken his leg in a motorbike smash, The Sunday Mail reports.
The daredevil Scot came off his high-powered bike while taking it for a spin near his London home.
McGregor, 35, has been hobbling around with a plaster cast but is hoping to recover fully for his planned motorbike trip from John O'Groats to Cape Town in South Africa this summer.
In an interview for Comic Relief, the Star Wars actor told Edinburgh's Fresh Air Radio DJ Tim Johns how he was hurt when he spilled off his bike.
He said:
"I just had a freak traffic accident on my bike and had a little fall off, yeah.
"It hasn't put me off bikes at all."
"If you are going to ride bikes, you are going to have accidents from time to time. So it was unfortunate."
Last night, McGregor's mum Carol, from Crieff, Perthshire, said:
"It's true. Ewan has had an accident on his motorbike and has broken his leg.
"The accident happened in London but that's all I can really tell you about it."
"Ewan is managing to hobble around on crutches perfectly well and he feels OK."
"I'm sure he will be fine for his motorbike trip in the summer and he is very much looking forward to it."
It is the second time McGregor has come off a motorbike. He escaped serious injury seven years ago when a 190mph superbike he was riding on loan, skidded on diesel near Inverness.
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January 8, 2007
Ewan McGregor nude days are over
Ewan McGregor has decided not to strip off in future movies, as he is getting too old.
The actor has got naked in numerous films in the past, the most notable being Trainspotting and Young Adam. And up until now, he has had every reason to keep doing it because he has found ways to cheat the ageing process.
He said in an interview with Britain's Radio 1:
"I shave my chest because having it hairy makes me look older. It's sexy when it's smooth. But when I shave it, I sometimes get a rash, which is a nightmare. And my wife gets it too. Having a shaved chest is cool for a day, until it starts growing back."
The 35-year-old star is married to French production designer Eve Mavrakis.
In keeping with his hair-free look, Ewan refused to grow a moustache for his role as book editor Norman Warne in 'Miss Potter'.
"I had to wear a fake moustache and it makes you speak really strange. If you're not careful, it will fall off. We shot this scene in the film where I had to laugh and it ended up looking really awkward, but they left the scene in."
However, McGregor's days of movie nudity are now numbered, for the sake of the audience: "I might protect people from the sight of my old flesh in future films," he added.
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