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Hamish and Andy gift actor Joel Edgerton a $47000 Rolex in awkward off-air prank
By Ebony Bowden
Hamish and Andy have done it again.
After an interview with Joel Edgerton on Monday, the radio duo gifted the Australian actor with a $47000 Rolex watch as a thank-you gift for coming on the show.
Hamish and Andy have taken the No.1 drive spot in Melbourne.
"We don't have a lot of guests on the show this year, and we want to make it special for when they come on," Hamish Blake told a clearly-gobsmacked Edgerton after their on-air chat.
While this could be a story on the excess in Australian commercial radio and the outrageous gifts celebrities receive, the present was actually an awkward prank to see if Edgerton would accept the watch.
He did.
The 41-year-old actor stars in upcoming psychological thriller The Gift, and in true Hamish and Andy style, the radio hosts thought they'd test Edgerton's reaction to receiving an inappropriate off-air gift.
After the Animal Kingdom actor left the studio with the loot under his arm, the radio hosts went to panic stations and got their producer on the phone to stop him from leaving the building.
It appears Edgerton was already clued-in on the prank and told the men he wasn't going to let them pull one over on him so easily.
"Please don't leave, it's got like eight diamonds in it," Blake pleaded, "It's like the most expensive thing any of us have touched."
"You know, what I love about you guys is you're not in the business of taking things back," Edgerton said, laughing.
The radio duo then revealed the magnitude of their prank.
"If you're trying to distract us while you've kept walking, please don't, because there are two people from Rolex in here who have been assigned to guard the watch," Blake said.
"Yeah, I'll see you later," the actor said while getting into a lift.
The luxury watch was not visible on Edgerton's wrist during an interview on The Project later on Monday.
When asked if it was hard for actors approaching their forties, the famous exports drew attention to gender inequality in Hollywood.
"There's a really big conversation to be had about the difference between being a guy in Hollywood and being a girl in Hollywood," he said.
"The girls tend to get cast aside after they've been through their early twenties, and men have this sort of renaissance time in their forties.
"It's imbalanced, in the writing it's imbalanced, in the casting it's imbalanced."