Apparently Pete Burns controversial 'gorilla' coat is not made out of the skin of a gorilla after all. Experts analysed the coat after animal rights body PETA said the former Dead Or Alive singer should be prosecuted under the Control Of Trade In Endangered Species Regulations for owning the coat, which caused controversy in the Celebrity Big Brother house when Burns started wearing it. With that in mind, police seized the coat from the BB house, but experts at the Natural History Museum say that while the coat may contain fur from monkeys, it does not come from an endangered species. The people from PETA now want to meet with Burns themselves to talk him out of wearing fur. Now that would make good reality TV.
Jan 20, 2006
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Burns coat is not gorilla
Experts at the Natural History Museum say Pete Burns' controversial coat contains monkey fur but not from an endangered species, so it is not gorilla skin.