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While she may be terrified of snakes (see video below), when it comes to smaller members of the animal kingdom, Salma Hayek just loves to eat them.

During an appearance on the David Letterman show in the US on Monday night, the Mexican born actress said “grasshoppers”, “fried ants” and “worms” are among her favourite bugs to munch.

“Ants fried are amazing – with a little guacamole. And the worms … there are many different recipes for those. The little grasshoppers have a smoky flavor to them. It’s the way they cook them, and it’s really good,” she said.

Mmmm, just in time for lunch. Hungry, anyone?

Sometimes luck just runs. Consider California-born, Texan-by-conviction and New York resident Tom Russell, a singer-songwriter who has been making music for almost 40 years without achieving any mass success apart from being big in Scandinavia.

A week ago he was in New York promoting his new album Blood and Candle Smoke, a mission which included an appearance on the Dave Letterman Show.

Events conspired and Russell’s spot coincided with Letterman’s on air revelation about being blackmailed by a fellow CBS employee and his confession to affairs with female co-workers.

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It’s a case of life imitating art or, more precisely, life almost imitating a cult Kiwi musical comedy duo’s US cable TV show.

In the second series of the relentlessly self-deprecating Flight of the Conchords, the New Zealand Prime Minister Brian visits America but is such a non-entity that the closest he comes to meeting Barack Obama is on a public tour of the White House and then later at a party with an Obama impersonator.

In a follow-up episode Brian opens the single dismal exhibit New Zealand Town in New York and insists on providing the commentary while driving the guided tour bus past it himself.

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