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Sunday February 15, 2009

Mickey Rourke shocked staff at London’s Heathrow airport recently – after he turned up with a suit case, packed full of shoes, weighing a whopping five-and-a-half stone.

The Wrestler star, 56 – who was flying first class from London to New York – was forced to repack his bags as the crammed case of footwear was 4kg over the maximum weight limit.

A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Mirror, “It was really weird and extraordinary to watch.

“Five-and-a-half stone – 36kg – of shoes is one heck of a lot of shoes, especially for a bloke.

“Staff thought at first he must have had his BAFTA in the case.

“It was freezing cold but he had no socks on and a pair of blue slip-ons with very low heels. And it turned out that he had about 40 pairs of shoes very similar to the ones he was wearing in the case.

“It’s the sort of thing you’d expect of Victoria Beckham, but not of a tough guy like Mickey Rourke.”