A New Zealand woman who makes tea towels with Hollywood star Ryan Gosling’s face on them has reduced the man to tears of embarrassment.
The Gangster Squad actor was mortified when he was shown the towel during an interview for his latest flick.
The cloth is the handiwork of Dunedin designer Colleen Pugh, who sells her designs online as part of her “Dear Colleen” label.
It features three hand-drawn versions of Gosling and lines like, “Hey girl, I bet you’d rather be doing these dishes.”
We’ve already seen Gosling’s beautiful face on a pancake, so this work inspired by Ryan barely surprises us. However, it had the man himself in tears.
“There’s a lady in New Zealand that makes dishtowels with your face on them,” interviewer Grae Drake told Gosling, to his horror.
When Drake asks him, “Would you wash dishes with your own face?”, Gosling dissolves into laughter, hiding his face and crying: “It’s like looking at the sun – I can’t stare directly at it”.
You can look at Colleen’s one-of-a-kind tea towels online here.
Colleen Pugh said she came up with the idea for the tea towels a couple of years ago.
“I had no idea it was going to happen but do remember sending an order to Hollywood and thinking how funny and wondered if it was going to someone who knew him but never really dreamed it was,” she told the New Zealand Herald.
Pugh said she first heard of the interview when Drake commented on the “Dear Colleen” Facebook page.
“I’m mostly just really embarrassed. I’ve only been able to watch it once,” she said.
Pugh said she chose Gosling for the dishtowel because of his popularity with women and that he was “easy on the eye”.
She has sold a couple hundred of the Ryan Gosling towels over the last six months.
