Donny Tourette
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| Donny Tourette | |
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| Birth name | Patrick Brannan |
| Born | March 04, 1981(27) Liverpool, England |
| Instrument(s) | vocals |
| Label(s) | TVT Records |
| Associated acts | Towers of London The Tourettes |
| Website | TheTowersOfLondon.com |
Donny Tourette (born Patrick Brannan March 4, 1981[1]) is the lead singer of English punk rock band Towers of London which he founded together with his brother Dirk.[2]
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[edit] Celebrity Big Brother
Tourette was the eighth Celebrity Big Brother 2007 contestant to enter the UK Big Brother House on 3 January 2007. He swore at the crowd and made rude gestures, some crowd members chanted 'Who are ya?'.[3] The host, Davina McCall, said that he "smelled like a brewery".
On his first night in the house, Tourette jumped into the Jacuzzi fully clothed. Later on, Jo O'Meara of S Club 7 pop fame, grabbed the double bed in the bedrooms, stated "I'm not sharing with Donny. I'd rather sleep on the floor. I can't sleep with a guy like that".[4] Leo Sayer offered to swap with O'Meara, but after a while entered the diary room, saying "Donny's all right, but seeing him sprawled stark naked is not appealing". In the end Tourette had the bed to himself.
The house was later divided into "servant" and "master" quarters with Donny as part of the servant section. Tourette scaled the garden wall to freedom after less than 48 hours in the house,[5] stating "I'm not waiting hand on foot, on some fucking moron and her family" as his reason for scaling the wall.
[edit] Never Mind the Buzzcocks
On February 7, 2007, Tourette appeared as a contestant on pop quiz game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Series 20, Episode 2). During the show, footage of the Towers of London documentary was shown, specifically a scene in which Tourette aggressively berates his management and claims "I can fucking dick on the fucking Sex Pistols! The Sex Pistols don't have shit on me!". After which he calmly sits down and crosses his legs, as noted by fellow panellist Philip Olivier.
Tourette also lit a cigarette during the final round of the quiz, to which Simon Amstell commented 'Wait a minute! Donny is smoking now! A cigarette?! Which you can legally buy in shops?! I'll try to carry on but I am shocked and appalled'. Tourette was continually mocked by Amstell and the nature of his 'Punk' credentials. At one point, Tourrette held his crutch in a derogatory nature towards Amstell, exclaiming, 'This is what I think of you Amstell'; to which Amstell replied, 'You think me a small penis?' Donny continually referred to Simon as 'Anstis', to which Simon replied, 'No, I'm not Toby Anstis'. During the show, Tourette wasn't in his seat so Simon impersonated him, wearing his shades and smoking, saying 'Did his helmet turn blue?' referring to the start of the show when Touette's team was asked why Prince got in trouble over a tin of purple paint, he replied, 'Because his helmet turned blue?' Throughout the show, Amstell played an extract from the song Anarchy in the UK when Donny did something typically punk. When, in the last round, Donny's team was asked to name the next line of 'I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist' (the song that Simon continually played while impersonating Donny in the show), Donny replied 'I am the walrus?' The show concluded with Bill Bailey noting that Donny was 'about as punk as Enya'.
[edit] References
- ^ "NME: TOWERS COURT DECISION", NME.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
- ^ "The Towers Of London @ The Oxford Zodiac", BBC, 2005-02-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
- ^ "Celebrity Big Brother: Latest news from the CBB house", The Sun Online. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
- ^ "Leo saves Jo from Donny's clutches", AOL Entertainment. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
- ^ "Donny is Gonny", Channel 4, 2007-01-06. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
