THANDIE NEWTON - NEWTON THE PRACTICAL JOKER

Actress THANDIE NEWTON constantly played practical jokes on her RUN, FAT BOY, RUN co-star SIMON PEGG, because she enjoyed seeing the comedian on the receiving end of a prank. Screen beauty Newton is often portrayed as a polite and well-behaved star in the media, but insists she can be mischievous when she wants to be - as Pegg found out on the set of the new David Schwimmer-directed movie. Describing the kind of pranks she played on Pegg, she says, "I put Cellophane (thin plastic wrap) over the loo (toilet). I got a king-sized Mars bar (chocolate bar), squished it into a turd (poo) shape, left it in the loo in his trailer, and then got a pair of Y-fronts and rubbed Marmite skid marks and left that on the floor, so it looked like he'd done his business and left. "And I sewed up the neck and cuffs of his T-shirts..."