Hollywood veteran Gary Busey has been one of Tinseltowns most bizarre residents for three decades now. His famed lack of filter between mouth and brain has resulted in some of the oddest incidents ever to occur involving a star of Lethal Weapon, which is saying something. In December 1988, Busey was involved in a serious motorcycle accident while not wearing a helmet, and fractured his skull. Although he awoke from the resulting coma after a few weeks, it took him months to learn how to walk and talk again. Doctors have hypothesised that he suffered further brain damage as a result of the accident, which might go some way towards explaining his oddness. This is, after all, the man who claimed that five parts of his brain contained alien power, and who can invent a whacked-out acronym for a normal word at the drop of a hat: DOUBT, apparently, stands for Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts, while FEAR means False Evidence Appearing Real. According to Buseys wisdom, fear is the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives. Well, thats good to know. Then theres the slightly worrying threatening of Swedish chat show presenters with a machete, after soaking fellow guests with a garden hose the random shouting at interviewers on the red carpet licking Jennifer Garners neck completely freaking out Meat Loaf, his fellow contestant on Celebrity Apprentice the list goes on and on and on. Last year, despite some rather mean-spirited bullying from his Z-list fellow inmates, Busey was voted the winner of the 14th series of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. Its good to know that the British public can still accept septuagenarian weirdoes with impulse control issues.
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