The hair-raising truth about those who put fame above achievement

HERE’S a quiz question. No prize, but have a go anyway. What do Donald Trump and Ryan Lochte have in common? Odd hair, I hear you say? Accurate, but not the right answer, writes Terry Prone

The right answer is a twofer: 1) They’re both promiscuously addicted to fame, rather than achievement, and 2) Neither knows how to apologise.

Were Lochte addicted to achievement, coming up to the Olympics, he’d have done what Michael Phelps did, which was to train constantly and eat an enormous amount of healthy food. Any half-decent athlete these days knows to the last blueberry what to eat in order to maximise their performance and recovery. Even Lochte would know that if you’re aiming at a gold medal in Rio, you get into blueberry counting. Instead, he got into Big Mac ingestion. Multiple Big Macs. He was lovin’ it to such an extent that it made him spectacularly sick.