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Tom Hanks speaks out on Vegemite scandal

You're an animal Tom, an animal - by Kara Byers
  • 12 Apr 2020

Now that Tom Hanks has recovered from coronavirus and is safe back at home in America the actor has finally addressed the topic of his outrageous Vegemite portioning.

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Tom Hanks speaks out on Vegemite scandal

The 63-year-old and his wife Rita Wilson had been diagnosed with coronavirus on March 11 while they were shooting in Australia. It was during isolation here that he posted a photo of his toast covered in an extremely thick layer of Vegemite.

The image attracted thousands of comments from Australians instructing the actor on the correct Vegemite to toast ratio.

Although he made comment at the time, telling fans he’d “learned not to spread my Vegemite so thick,” he didn’t mention it again until delivering his opening monologue for Saturday Night Live.

Hanks pretended to be an Australian man who asked: “I’ve got a question for Tommy Tim Tam, what’s the right proper way to get a daily dose of your Vegemite?”

Hanks pretended to be an Australian man who asked: “I’ve got a question for Tommy Tim Tam, what’s the right proper way to get a daily dose of your Vegemite?”

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"It's good to be here, but it's also weird to be here hosting Saturday Night Live from home," Hanks, 63, said from what appeared to be his kitchen. "It is a strange time to try and be funny, but trying to be funny is SNL's whole thing, so what the heck, let's give it a shot."

Hanks kicked off the monologue with a greeting made famous by Tiger King’s Carole Baskin, saying, “Hey all you cool cats and kittens”.

He then referred to himself as the “celebrity canary in the coalmine for the coronavirus” and joked: “Ever since being diagnosed I have been more like America’s dad than ever before. No one wants to be around me very long and I make people uncomfortable.”

“I was diagnosed back in March with the coronavirus,” Hanks continued. “I was first diagnosed down in Australia. Now the folks in Australia are fantastic in every way, but they use celsius instead of fahrenheit when they take your temperature, so when they come in and they say, ‘you’re 36,’ which seemed very bad to me, but it turns out 36 is fine. 38 is bad.

“Basically, it’s how Hollywood treats female actors,” he quipped.

The 63-year-old and his wife Rita Wilson had been diagnosed with coronavirus on March 11 while they were shooting in Australia.

The 63-year-old and his wife Rita Wilson had been diagnosed with coronavirus on March 11 while they were shooting in Australia.

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The actor, who said he and his wife Rita Wilson are now “doing fine”, then threw to questions from ‘audience members’ which were actually just himself in costumes.

In one of them, Hanks pretended to be an Australian man who asked: “I’ve got a question for Tommy Tim Tam, what’s the right proper way to get a daily dose of your Vegemite?”

The camera cut back to Hanks in his hosting role who fobbed off the question with a laugh before saying, “enough of that”.

The actor, who said he and his wife Rita Wilson are now “doing fine”, threw to questions from ‘audience members’ which were actually just himself in costumes.

The actor, who said he and his wife Rita Wilson are now “doing fine”, threw to questions from ‘audience members’ which were actually just himself in costumes.

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