Ringo Starr Admits He’s By no means Eaten Pizza in His Lifestyles

Famed Beatles drummer and one-time Pizza Hut spokesperson Ringo Starr has admitted he’s by no means eaten pizza sooner than.

The veteran musician made the quite unexpected confession whilst showing on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! to advertise his twenty first studio album, Glance Up. As a part of his chat, Kimmel requested Starr to set some rumors about himself directly. First at the listing was once the declare that Starr had by no means eaten pizza.

“I’ve by no means had a pizza,” Starr showed, because the target audience expressed their surprise on the information. “Or a curry.”

“I’m allergic to a number of pieces,” Starr persisted. “With pizza, you don’t know what you’re setting up it part the time. Or the curry. So I’m strict with myself because it makes me sick straight away.”

“I used to assume you had the best lifestyles, and now I understand mine is healthier,” Kimmel joked in reaction. Added Starr: “Yours is healthier since you’ve had a pizza.”

Starr’s wish to abstain from pizza additionally is going hand-in-hand together with his longtime vegetarianism, however is made the entire extra unexpected given his function as a one-time spokesperson for famous eating place chain Pizza Hut.

Showing in a 1995 advert marketing campaign for the chain, Starr promoted Pizza Hut’s newly-introduced filled crust as a part of a 30-second spot which noticed him teasing a reunion from The Beatles. The advert’s punchline sees Starr joined by way of individuals of The Monkees as an alternative (“Improper lads,” he quips), with all 4 musicians showing to chunk a work of pizza crust-first. We now know, then again, that Starr doesn’t in fact observe swimsuit.

The previous Beatle’s newest report arrived on Jan. 10 as his first full-length unencumber since 2019’s What’s My Title. Reinforced by way of visitor appearances from Alison Krauss, Molly Tuttle, Lucius, Larkin Poe, and Billy Strings, the rustic report has up to now been a industrial luck. Glance Up debuted on Billboard’s all-genre Best Album Gross sales chart at No. 7, charted within the most sensible ten of Indie Retailer Album Gross sales (No. 2) and Best Rock Albums (No. 7), and in addition gave Starr a career-best height of No. 27 at the Best Nation Albums.

“I did love nation song sooner than I used to be in (The Beatles),” Starr lately informed Billboard. “We were given a lot of it in Liverpool, since the lads who had been within the service provider army would convey now not simplest rock and roll over, however nation — and when nation bands went on excursion in England, they at all times performed Liverpool.”