Official signings are always fraught with a wee bit of peril for the famous and semi-famous. Youre essentially acknowledging that the more obsessive of your fans exist, and turning up at an event created specifically for them, in order to charge them money to take a picture with you, sign something and make you a present of their toenail clippings or some such horror. Unusual requests from fans at moments like these are the meat of celebrity stories from all kinds of media, and pro wrestling is no different. However, from the can you sign this body part brigade, to requests for items of their clothing, wrestling fans can take it just a wee bit too far. AJ Lee refuses to allow any physical contact with fans taking pictures these days, which begs the question: how many times has the poor woman been grabbed by sex pests over the last few years? Meawhile, Nikki Bella tells stories of one man asking her to remove her heels so that he can take pictures of her feet, while Maria Kanellis has been asked for her socks which the guy wanted her to sign, of course. She says she might even have done it, but she was in the airport and wearing them at the time. Talking of socks, some wrestlers are enterprising enough to make some significant money out of the eccentricities of fans. Mick Foley once autographed a vast number of socks, which were then numbered and sold as limited editions on the Walmart website. Well, he had made the sock part of his gimmick. And then theres Tammy Sunny Sytch, the proto-Diva turned human car crash who poses for fan photographs in bed with them. Thats not encouraging unnecessary behaviour at all.
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