Just Imagine! Big Brother star beds down like Lennon
JOHN LENNON and Yoko Ono famously held a week-long ‘bed-in’ during their honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton in 1969 to promote world peace.
Now the stunt is to be re-enacted by the unlikely figure of Bez, former Celebrity Big Brother winner and ex-member of Manchester band Happy Mondays, who will take to bed with his fiancee Firouzeh Razavi in January at the Kensington Hilton.
Bez, aka Mark Berry, is standing as a parliamentary candidate in Salford for his newly formed anti-fracking Reality Party and has invited Yoko, a prominent anti-fracking campaigner, to join him between the sheets.
It’s not known whether she will accept, though i f she does she may f i nd Mr Berry is not quite the peacenik her late husband was. In 2010 Bez was convicted of assaulting musician Monica Ward, the mother of his six-year-old son, after throttling her and threatening to kill her.
However, Bez has more in common with the Beatles frontman than you might think.
Lennon was fined £150 in 1968 for cannabis possession, and once claimed to have taken over a thousand LSD trips during his time with the Fab Four. Both he and Yoko subsequently struggled with heroin addiction in the 1970s.
Of Berry, meanwhile, music impresario Tony Wilson once said: ‘Every band needs it’s own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.’
After cracking his head open during a fall from the stage in 1986, Bez ignored doctor’s advice to rest and instead dripped LSD into the wound, then played on. Despite a past fondness for crack cocaine, he has never been to rehab.