Sylvester Stallone lasted only three and a half weeks as a lion cage cleaner. It wasn’t so much that the cleaning itself was difficult but that the powerful ammoniac stench of the lions’ urine made his eyes stream. Added to that, the reek clung to his clothes ‘as if I had the world’s greatest bladder problem’. He was also unnerved by the lions balefully gazing at him through the bars of the neighbouring cage. ‘The way they inhaled and exhaled made an eerie moaning sound like they already knew what I was going to taste like,’ he writes.
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