'The Chase's Mark Labbett gets asked for selfies in the toilets.
Mark Labbett asked for selfies in the toilets
The towering brainbox - whose nickname is The Beast - has revealed fans of the ITV game show often come up to him while he's going to the loo, but he always requests that they take their photos outside of the bathroom.
He said: “People always want photos with me. I don’t know why, but they do. It has become part of the job.
“I get asked for selfies in the toilet quite a lot. When that happens, I generally say, ‘Can you wait until we get outside please?’.
“People come up to me when I’m shopping, too.
“People often ask me trivia questions on either football or capital cities and generally I get them right.”
Mark, 56, has no qualms about taking snaps with his fans - because they've made him rich.
According to the Daily Star on Sunday's Ed Gleave column, he said: "When people ask for selfies, it’s nice because it shows they like 'The Chase'.
“And when I’m doing the PAs I make a fortune from doing them.”
On the popularity of the programme, he added: “We get such good figures. We are behind 'Corrie' and 'Emmerdale', but we’re ahead of 'EastEnders'.”
The Beast previously revealed other fan requests include always asking him to "pick them up".
Admitting he commonly gets asked the strange request when he makes appearances at Universities during Freshers’ Week, he said: "The weird ones are the ones that ask me to pick them up. I made a promise I would only do it with the people I love and secondly, I am getting old.
"But some people can't take no for an answer. It's fun though, you get all the weird and wonderful shots. It's lovely meeting all the students though."
Meanwhile, Mark was recently reported to have landed a six-figure sum to appear on the US version of the popular quiz show on ABC.