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An online advert placed by a performance poet asking for a housemate who would be prepared to dress part-time as a walrus has inspired a Hollywood film.
American screenwriter and actor Kevin Smith was so taken with Chris Parkinson’s Gumtree post for the fake housemate he decided to use the idea and make it into a film called Tusk.
