Post by Lone Gunman on Dec 11, 2008 15:49:58 GMT -6
After almost a year in and out of the court system over what he had called 'tax misunderstandings', Clancy McClean appears finally to have gotten back on his feet. McClean (48) went in the last number of years from being the single wealthiest on-air performer in the professional wrestling industry bar none to the verge of bankruptcy as he left GZW2K1 in a cloud of controversy in 2007. The exact details of his alleged financial misdeeds are not known but McClean is quick to point out that he has weathered the storm and is the better man for it, as he told Slime magazine in a recent interview: "I know, I'm as surprised as you that I could actually get any better. Me!"
In the last six months McClean has taken his CMC Corporation out of liquidation and has brought it in strange and new directions. When asked whether a return to GZW2K1 or wrestling full-stop was on the cards, "The Renaissance Man" told Slime that he no longer has time for such frivolities. He then went on to discuss his latest venture, a new cheese he is attempting to make from rendered hog fat and penguin wing meat. "I have put squillions of dollars and tens of thousands of man hours into this project and we expect to see some results. The wiping out of an entire subspecies of penguin will not have been in vein when this new super-cheese is launched in early 2009!" he promised.
Other future endeavours for the former GZW2K1 Director of New Media include being the presenter and 'boss' in the Albanian version of hit TV show The Apprentice - set to air early in the new year, the publication of his eighth autobiography, the recording of his first studio album with his electro-punk band Clancy McClean and the Clancy McCleans. The world of wrestling well and truly behind him - apart from his lingering petty grudge against Chris Cairns (whom he described to David Letterman recently as "a bad wrestler, a worse journalist, a terrible person in general. One of the worst human beings I've ever come across, in fact...And I once had brunch with Sadam Hussein back in 1986!"), of course - it is unclear as to whether or not McClean will wish to stay in the public eye.
If McClean himself is to be believed, the offers haven't stopped flooding in for full- and part-time journalistic, television and movie work. Rumours persist of a certain campaign for 2012, however. Remember, you heard that here first - and last, if there is any justice in the world.
In the last six months McClean has taken his CMC Corporation out of liquidation and has brought it in strange and new directions. When asked whether a return to GZW2K1 or wrestling full-stop was on the cards, "The Renaissance Man" told Slime that he no longer has time for such frivolities. He then went on to discuss his latest venture, a new cheese he is attempting to make from rendered hog fat and penguin wing meat. "I have put squillions of dollars and tens of thousands of man hours into this project and we expect to see some results. The wiping out of an entire subspecies of penguin will not have been in vein when this new super-cheese is launched in early 2009!" he promised.
Other future endeavours for the former GZW2K1 Director of New Media include being the presenter and 'boss' in the Albanian version of hit TV show The Apprentice - set to air early in the new year, the publication of his eighth autobiography, the recording of his first studio album with his electro-punk band Clancy McClean and the Clancy McCleans. The world of wrestling well and truly behind him - apart from his lingering petty grudge against Chris Cairns (whom he described to David Letterman recently as "a bad wrestler, a worse journalist, a terrible person in general. One of the worst human beings I've ever come across, in fact...And I once had brunch with Sadam Hussein back in 1986!"), of course - it is unclear as to whether or not McClean will wish to stay in the public eye.
If McClean himself is to be believed, the offers haven't stopped flooding in for full- and part-time journalistic, television and movie work. Rumours persist of a certain campaign for 2012, however. Remember, you heard that here first - and last, if there is any justice in the world.
