James Bond Film Star To Be Stuffed!
If Roger Moore knows what's good for him, he'll run like hell now that this precedent has been set! One of the biggest stars - literally - of the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die (the first one Moore starred in) passed away on September 4th. He is in the hands of taxidermists as we speak.
Big Boy, three metres (nearly ten feet) long, appeared in the 1973 movie "Live and Let Die", which featured British spy Bond running over the backs of alligators in a pool infested with them.
Born in Louisiana in the United States, Big Boy also turned up in television commercials and 1980s BBC comedy "The Young Ones" before spending his retirement at Beaver Water World in Kent, southeast England.
He died on September 4 aged 45 at the zoo and reptile rescue centre, following an illness.
"He was immensely popular always, he was a real character," said Stella Quayle, the Beaver Water World curator, adding that flowers and cards had been left at his enclosure since his death.
"He really did have a sense of humour," she said.
Now frankly, we always thought Moore's acting indicated that he'd been stuffed at some point, but that's because we firmly believe Sean Connery is the only real James Bond (in a movie sense, of course).
