Showbiz: 'Fang-tastic' claims Dentist as he snaps up John Lennon's tooth
A rotten tooth that once resided in the mouth of legend John Lennon has been sold at auction for £19,500!
A Canadian dentist bought the former Beatles' molar by telephone bid at an auction of rock memorabilia in the Northwest of England.
Michael Zuk, a 49-year old father of two from Alberta, said he was absolutely "buzzing" after his purchase and stayed up all night wondering how crazy the prices were going to go.
"It's one of those things where most people would say I'm crazy but I think it's fantastic".
Yellowy-brown in colour and with a huge cavity, it was the star lot of the auction with a reserve price of £10,000. Zuk said he paid "a little over" his planned limit. John Lennon gave the tooth to his housekeeper Dorothy Jarlett between 1964 and 1968 lived in Weybridge, Surrey. She later moved to Canada where she married and had kept it with her ever since.
A massive Beatles fan, Zuk exclaimed that it was his first memorabilia purchase and that it would now take pride of place among a collection of dinosaur teeth and other interesting fangs!
Mr Zuk, author of Confessions Of A Former Cosmetic Dentist explained that it is his first human tooth in the collection and he also hopes to extract DNA evidence. "I have full confidence but obviously there will be people who are suspicious that this is not the real tooth and it would be good to do a definitive scientific investigation to confirm it" he explained.