The New Kids On The Block star recalls how shocked he was when he and actress wife Jenny McCarthy received a wacky painting from one of their new neighbors.
- December 26, 2019
AceShowbiz - Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg own an odd portrait of themselves painted by an artist who uses his manhood as his brush.
The couple was given the wacky gift by a new neighbour years ago.
"We got a gift and it was a painting of both of us and it was like this real sort of quirky art like, 'Oh wait a minute, oh that's us,' " Wahlberg told the New York Post's Page Six.
The present came with an accompanying video saved to a zip drive and the stars couldn't believe it when they discovered how it had been created.
"The zip drive starts with (the neighbour) talking first and he's like, 'We had to get you the most unique gift that anyone in the world can get you because you probably get everything,' " he recalled.
"It cut to a video of a man with a blank canvas and he takes off his clothes and painted the picture with his 'utensil!' "
"I nearly dropped the painting on the floor and washed my hands!" he laughed.
The unidentified artist is based in Australia, and surprisingly, Wahlberg and McCarthy still have the artwork stored away somewhere. "It's around," the singer/actor said. "We haven't fully recovered from the trauma of it all. But it's a legit guy - whether or not it's a legit thing to do, that's a whole other question."
"But it looks just like us. I mean, he nailed it, no pun intended!"
