YouTube star Max Fosh teases loophole ‘bigger than anything else that I've discovered’

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23 Jul 2024, 10:01

Internet sensation Max Fosh has discovered a loophole that is “too good for a video,” and so he’s taking it on tour. 

The comedian, presenter and internet star is embarking on an international tour, appropriately titled Loophole, in September, and he joined The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with webuyanycar to talk all about it.

Speaking to Nick Grimshaw, who hosting for a couple of weeks while Chris is on his summer holiday, Max said: “It's about a loophole that I found that I think is bigger than anything else that I've discovered. And I thought, ‘Let me do a show about this.’”

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He added: “I'm the king of finding loopholes normally. But I thought, ‘This one's too good for a video.’”

Max explained: “The World Tour starts on 19th of September. I'm going up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well, and I am going to about 12 different countries.”

Max has over four million followers across social media and over a billion views across his YouTube videos. On how he began, he said: “I started in hospital radio. Shout out to hospital radio.

“I did actually nearly get sacked for playing AC/DC’s Highway to Hell on hospital radio. That's a no-go, considering who's listening to you to the station. 

“I was like, ‘This is fun, let's see if I can get into radio.’ Didn't quite work, so then I then started just doing lots of mad stuff. I was quite naughty. I did start sneaking into places and filming it. So I snuck into London Fashion Week pretending to be a model. I wore, like, Primark maternity wear and plastic packaging all over me. Got invited in, got to shows, second row. ‘Oh my God, love your outfit.’”

Speaking about some of his other previous stunts, he explained: “I wanted to be a competitor at the Mr. Universe bodybuilding competition. I found a loophole. I managed to compete, and you're looking at the Most Unique Physique Award winner, 2023.

“I also really wanted to get into the will of a billionaire. I was like, ‘That'd be interesting’. So I managed to get into the will of a billionaire for something really, really small. It was like, a sock.”

“I like just to collect different things that basically allow me to say, ‘I've done that.’" 

He continued: “I snuck into the international security convention pretending to be a man called Rob Banks. So, I did kind of like things like this. And then it started to grow very, very slowly. And I'd just finished university, I was working in a pub, and I thought, ‘Hold on, there is something here.’ Because it was just like, incrementally, slowly, slowly, slowly, working. And then after about six months, I had a video that kind of went really, really big, which allowed me to do it full-time.”

Regarding his upcoming video, Max told Grimmy: “On Sunday, I'm releasing a video in which I have a hot dog-eating competition... and on my team was the third best competitive eater in the world - and we were eating against a grizzly bear.”

He explained: “I was generally interested as to who could eat more; a professional eater and me, or a grizzly bear. 

“We had hot dogs without the buns.”

On how he set the contest up, he said: “When I messaged the woman who looks after Tank the Bear, she rescued him from a zoo. She's lovely. She's called Lynn. We'd love to have a hot dog-eating competition. She's like, ‘We’d have to do it without the buns, if that's okay, if that's okay.’ She was like, ‘Cooked sausages are his favourite thing. So this will be really easy!’” 

Tickets for Max’s Loophole tour are available now at maxfosh.co.

For more great interviews listen to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with webuyanycar weekdays from 6:30am on Virgin Radio, or catch up on-demand here.