The Hoff was banned from boarding a British Airways flight after showing up to the gate a little boozed. Or maybe he was just ‘ill’. Longish article on The Hoff here.

Recently, Hasselhoff met Prince Harry at a polo match and strolled right up to him. “I said: ‘Hey, I knew your mom and I thought she was awesome. Did you ever get the autographed picture I gave to her?’ And he said no. But he did get the pictures of the Baywatch girls. I know what happened. The butler took my pictures.”

Turkey’s constitutional court chief justice is called Mustafa Bumin.

Valve’s portal. More here - check the second comment. Like: “There’s only one word for that - magic darts!”

This rally sounds like a right laugh! I will be investigating. Hmmm, I’d love to do this.

43 cars left London.
27 cars reached Mongolia.
14 cars reached the finish in Ulaanbaatar.
2 teams were robbed at knife point.
1 car snapped in half.
3 engines fell completely out of the cars.
1 team were held for 5 days in no-mans land.
1 team cycled 200km to get to the finish when their car gave in.
100’s of tyres were blown.
1 team got engaged.
1 team found a 10ft deep pot hole.
1 team found a 25 tonne crane rolled by a pot hole.
3 teams attended weddings
1 team had to reverse up a mountain after losing all bar one forward gear
1 person spent 24 hours in a Kazakh jail charged with 5 crimes against the state.
1 person was stoned by a mongolian nomad (who he then shot at with a gun).
1 team rammed off the road after an arguement over water melons.
1 person spent a day in a Turkish hospital.
3 people were banned from Turkmenistan for a year.
1 person was detained by police in Azerbaijan and threated with a beating from a dwarf. This followed an incident with a cow.
2 cars flipped over in Mongolia.
3 teams were chased by armed bandits.
0 teams died.