SPIDER MAN - FRANCO'S COLOGNE CONFESSION

FRANCO'S COLOGNE CONFESSION

SPIDER-MAN star JAMES FRANCO earned extra pocket money in his youth - by stealing bottles of cologne from department stores.
When the actor was in the eighth grade in high school, he and a gang of friends would distract shop assistants and swipe the tester bottles from cosmetics counters.
And Franco - who is the face of Gucci fragrances - admits that it was a major scheme to earn extra pocket money.
He tells U.S. chatshow host Jay Leno, "I don't know how it happened by somehow I got into stealing cologne. It's kind of ironic now. We would go into department stores and they had the testers out there, we were looking for a bit of excitement.
"We had our cologne stealing ring. We would chat up the cologne attendant and then the other would swipe the bottle. We accumulated a huge stash, we would keep it in our lockers. We were in either grade so we'd sell it to the seventh graders, we would sell it for 15 dollars - I think it cost about 25 in the shops."
Franco also confesses to passing the fragrances on to other pupils before high school dances and urinating in the bottles given to boys they didn't like.
He adds, "One horrible thing, if I go to hell for anything it will be for this. They have the little tester tubes, if we were going to a dance and there was someone we didn't like, we would pee in the bottle."