![]() “I might have thought of keeping my last performance there. The intention was to also pop up during the final of the World Cup of 2018 between France and Croatia, but that plan fell apart. I just make people laugh and am amused myself.” More recently, the British popped up during the last 100m race of Usain Bolt and the skating competition at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. “That’s because I do not disrupt public order or take care of panic. “Usually I am held by the police for one to two hours and I can have no penalty,” says Roberts. ©EPA – Also during the WC snooker in 2004, during the final between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Graeme Dott, Roberts was present. That was the case, among other things, after he was on the field during the FA Cup final between Liverpool and Arsenal in 2001. During his 25 years as a streaker he appeared eleven times in court and ‘only’ three times followed and condemnation. Roberts only left a hefty fine on his adventure in the United States. He took off his clothes, was quickly worked against the plain by one of the American Football wardrobes and then the security led him away. ![]() Together with a friend he was able to get tickets for the first row in the Reliant Stadium and during a game break he ran into the field. The Briton prepared his act the presence for a year and drew, among other things, a referee’s wobble to put the security in Texas in the luren. The only condition was that Roberts would write the name of the company on his body.Īlso, in 2004 Golden Palace paid Roberts for the perhaps most difficult streak of his life, during the Super Bowl. For example, the gaming platform Golden Palace paid him in 2003 to streak during the UEFA Cup final between Celtic and FC Porto in Seville. After a few successful performances, the painter closed some nice sponsorship deals. “Nowadays what I do is sometimes less accepted”, says Roberts, who indicates that his relationships have never suffered from his special hobby. In recent years Roberts chose to cover up his noble parts invariably, something he did not do at the beginning of his adventure. Now my children (aged 30, 25 and 21 years old, ed.) Are older and they think they are great too.” ©EPA – During the men’s finals at Wimbledon in 2002 between Nalbandian and Hewitt. “And what do they think?” I asked and the answer was that they actually thought it was great. “When they were teenagers and saw me running naked across a field on television, they begged to cut it. But my children had a harder time with it,” says Roberts. “She knew my hobby when she agreed to marry me. According to the Brit, she sees no bones in his special performances. Roberts has been engaged to a Suzi for several years. “Those athletes work for years to be in a final. ![]() He will never enter a field if a match is in progress, only during game breaks. That is why I still do it after 25 years.” The Briton tries to play it ‘clean’ according to his own words. And the reactions I get from the audience make my performances always worthwhile. “I felt pure happiness when I stood naked for about 65,000 people, mainly because I realized that I had the guts to do that. “That was then the most liberating experience of my life”, the streaker looks back. Roberts’ first performance dates back to 1993 when he scared the spectators during the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament. I like to make a performance of it, just running and waving in my face, I do not like it.” ©ANP – Roberts on the ice rink during the Olympic Winter Games of earlier this year in Pyeongchang. The audience was in a dent, just like the athletes on the ice. During the 2016 Winter Games I stepped on the ice during the curling competition with a rubber chicken around my waist to cover my precious parts. “I like to make people laugh and I succeed very often. “I am a real entertainer,” the Brit said in a conversation with Sky Sports. He already did this in 24 different countries and ‘only’ 25 he was arrested according to his own statements. Already 568 times he ran during his 25-year ‘career’ – that’s what the Brit calls himself – naked across a field or through a hall. But when he goes to a sporting event, Roberts leaves his tassels at home. ![]() In daily life he is a painter and plasterer. Mark Roberts lives with his family in Sefton Park, Liverpool. The 54-year-old Brit, despite the supplication, wants his streak pension of his three children, moreover, do not think so. For example, he ran the field without any clothes during the Champions League final of 2002, the men’s finals at Wimbledon in 2002, the Super Bowl and the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in 2018. The palmares of the most famous streaker in the world is impressive. Five hundred sixty-eight times the British exhibitionist Mark Roberts publicly went out of his clothes during some big sporting event. ![]()
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