MISSING LINKS

HOW two seemingly unrelated figures in the news are joined by a series of unexpected connections.

CHESNEY HAWKES

The singer made a surprise half-time appearance at the England vs Wales World Cup clash on Tuesday. After performing his 1991 hit The One And Only, he took credit for inspiring England to score three times in the second half. One of the 51-year-old musician’s biggest fans is…

DUNCAN BANNATYNE

… with the former TV Dragon inviting him to perform at his 60th birthday, held in a former warehouse in Darlington. Scot Bannatyne’s first job was with the Navy, joining at 15. He was court-martialled for trying to throw his commanding officer off an aircraft carrier to win a £5 bet. Another famous name to be court-martialled was…

WALT DISNEY

… who was acquitted of abandoning an American Ambulance Corps truck near Paris in 1919. One of the last things the animation genius ever wrote were the words ‘Kurt Russell’ on a piece of paper, found after his death. No one has any idea what he was referring to – not even…

KURT RUSSELL

… who was at the time a virtually unknown child actor. Russell is also an aircraft pilot, and while flying over Nevada in 1997 he became the first person to report the ‘Phoenix Lights’, a mass

UFO sighting. Someone else who’s spotted UFOs is…

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

The singer is obsessed with the subject and claims several sightings. His less celebrated achievements include appearing on EastEnders, as ‘man using payphone’ in the Queen Vic pub in 1995. The list of stars who’ve been in the soap also includes…

EMMA BUNTON

… as the future Baby Spice played ‘second girl’ in a 1992 episode, aged seven. Her other talents include having a green belt in karate, thanks to her mum, who teaches the martial art. Other karate students include…

ELON MUSK

… who in March challenged Vladimir Putin to a fight, with Ukraine as the stakes. The peculiar billionaire is causing chaos at newly acquired Twitter and now says he wants to put computer chips in human brains. What could possibly go wrong?