![]() ![]() British famous serial streaker Mark Roberts, seen here in 2003 during one of his 2003 stunts, said he would not. The ad had him asking the bobby for directions to a “20 per cent off Holeproof underwear sale.” In 1995, a British telecommunications company used to photo to advertise that phone numbers were having a digit added. Serial streaker vows to stay off Euro 2004 (Agencies) Updated: 09:50. “ implies I am in some way endorsing Holeproof products, which isn’t the case,” he said. It appeared on greeting cards and billboards in Britain, and in Australia Holeproof used it as part of an advertisement in 1991, much to O’Brien’s disgust. In 1974, the word ‘streaking’ first entered the English language. The Rugby Club in London erected a statue by Walter Keethner, based on the shot. After a bet in a bar, he exposed himself to the crowd the next day. Roberts streaking began when he saw a news report about a female streaker at a 1993 rugby sevens game in Hong Kong. The Ian Bradshaw photo on the other hand became a famous icon. Mark Roberts is an English streaker who has run naked during numerous international events. ![]() Yet, O’Brien opened the way–or at least showed it–for many other streakers: the next year, Michael Angelow, a navy cook at the Ashes in 1982, ‘Busty’ Erica Roe on the same hallowed grounds of Twickenham Melissa Johnson in front of the Duke of Kent at Wimbledon in 1996, Geordie Brynn Reed in front of the Queen’s Rolls Royce on her Jubilee visit to Newcastle in 2002 and most notoriously, Mark Roberts–the ‘serial streaker’–who had exposed himself for over 150 times. He was Twickenham’s first streaker – and the first at a major sporting event, too. The next day he was fined the exact sum (£10) he had won in the bet, and he subsequently lost his job with a London stockbroking firm I felt embarrassed so I covered him up as best I could,” he added, “It was a cold day – he had nothing to be proud of.” O’Brien claimed that he did this for a bet. “I feared he would be mobbed, or that other people would follow suit. Constable Bruce Perry took off his helmet to cover O’Brien’s private parts. The photo was taken an England-France rugby match at Twickenham in February 1974. During the half-time break, O’Brien, an Australian accountant, dashed naked before a crowd of 53,000, including Princess Alexandra. Indeed this Ian Bradshaw photo of streaker Michael O’Brien–arms outstretched as if he were Jesus–captured the peak of the social unrest and the changing values that defined the 70s–hippie culture, raising political awareness, increasing political and economic liberties, political advocacy for world peace and against nuclear weapons, and the battle against authority of government and big business However, a more fitting moniker comes from People Magazine, which named it, “Picture of The Decade”. In 2004, he had stripped off at the Super Bowl in Houston, a Barcelona vs Real Madrid match and Royal Ascot. It can be cold in Sheffield in the spring but that did not stop serial streaker Mark Roberts from Liverpool from baring all. It was LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Year”, it won a World Press Photo Award. Serial streaker Mark Roberts stripped off in the 2004 Embassy world final Credit: Getty. ![]()
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