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All I have been interested in my life is telling the truth. No matter how unpalatable. It makes me unpopular, but it also makes me a hero.

The actor Paul Putner tweeted and blueskyed this nugget today -

"I just used AI to find out who played 'Norm' from the Twix adverts in the 90s (He was also Simon Perry from the ITV kid's show What's Up Doc?). It was actually Stephen Taylor Woodrow not Kevin Eldon. This long running falsehood

@herring1967.bsky.social is having serious consequences!"

Of course, it is Putner who is spreading falsehoods here.

AI had said "The character "Norm" from the Twix adverts was played by Kevin Eldon. While there's a common misconception that the character "Norm" from the What's Up Doc? TV show played by Simon Perry was the same as the Twix character, this is incorrect. Kevin Eldon portrayed the Twix "Norm."

AI can't always get it right and of course it should have referred to the person in question as "the actor Kevin Eldon", but otherwise it is spot on. Who would you rather believe, a man who is most famous for putting an orange on his head or the intelligence of all the computers in the world?

I never tell a lie. And I am glad to have used my internet powers to keep the truth out there. Eldon will deny being Norm til he's blue in the teeth, because now he's moved on to better things like being in every film and TV show ever. But he is Norm and my ultimate aim is that in a hundred years time Norm from the Twix adverts will be ALL he is remembered for. Luckily AI seems keen to help with that.

As if you needed any more proof, here is the evidence. Trust your eyes.

Oh Norm, you were so uncool. Why couldn't you play pool, wear fashionable clothes and snog in the back of taxis like all the people who eat Twixes do?

Twix, as I have observed before, is the most average snack there is. No one would choose it if there was other things available, but you'd be happy enough it it was the only thing offered. It is thus the inverse of Marmite, you either don't mind it or don't mind it.

They tried to escape from the Norm, but sadly when it comes to snacks involving chocolate Twix is literally the norm.

Anyway Eldon is Norm and also, somehow, played this terrifying middle-aged man in the Pork advert in 1984 (when he was just 25) who is definitely also a serial killer who is serving up human flesh.

Eldon will literally advertise anything.