Boozy Chimp to write memoirs
A CHIMPANZEE which co-starred in a dozen Tarzan flicks back in the 1930s is publishing his memoirs after overcoming addictions to booze and cigars.
Somehow Cheeta the Chimp managed to survive to old age. Now 75 years old, he is officially listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest living non-human primate.
The California resident, whose real name is Jiggs, has nabbed a literary agent and is working with a ghostwriter on a "funny, moving and searingly honest" autobiography.
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Cheeta - snatched from the Liberian jungle in 1932 - starred in 12 Tarzan films and also worked with Bela Lugosi and Rex Harrison before retiring from the big screen after 1967's Doctor Dolittle.
The book is the brainchild of publisher Fourth Estate. Boss Nicholas Pearson said: "Here we've got the real monkey - a great actor who is one of the few still alive from what was the golden age of Hollywood. He saw it all.
"He had to act to save his life, literally. Others who fell by the wayside often ended up in the lab with the dogs, mice and rabbits."
Me Cheeta will be published in October.
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