Clown wins case against FHM

[James]

A full-time children's performer and circus artist has won R60,000 in a defamation case after he was portrayed negatively in a men's magazine, the Cape Times reported on Thursday.

FHM magazine reportedly ran a story in December 2007 condemning airline fares, car guards, and clowns, saying they often resembled "grown men with long-term tik habits, dressed like transvestites from hell".

Norman Pudney, better known as Puddles the Clown, was featured as the story's...read more here: Clown wins case against FHM

 

[MalicE]

....seriously??? I think this wins the Irony of the Day Award. A clown with no sense of humor

 

[Murph]

FHM - no surprise there.

 

[DieGrootHammer]

I am terrified...erm I mean... I dislike clown immensely. That explanation of clown by FHM is really accurate.

 

[BlackSwan]

Watching one too many John Wayne Gacy documentaries ruined clowns for me. Reading Stephen King's "IT" didn't improve the situation either ...