Sir Bob Geldof looked unrecognisable as he stepped out Down Under on Monday. The Boomtown Rats singer, 73, is currently in Australia to shoot his scenes in a zombie plane movie being filmed at Gold Coast Airport. Bob will star alongside action star Chuck Norris and 90s rapper Vanilla Ice as he plays the role of a hero who saves passengers on a plane from the zombies.
Bob looked a million miles away from his usual look as he rehearsed his lines on the Gold Coast on Monday morning, donning huge sunglasses and a garish green and orange tracksuit as he got into character. The I Don't Like Mondays hitmaker admitted he was nervous about the project last week, telling reporters at the Brisbane International Film Festival: "I am actually starring in Zombie Plane. Obviously, I’m very f**king nervous because this is a big acting role.
" Bob has previously made cameos in movies like Pink Floyd: The Wall and Spice World. Bob, known as much for his philanthropy as he is music, raised a few eyebrows earlier this year thanks to endorsing a Tory MP ahead of the 2024 General Election . The Live Aid founder backed Andrew Mitchell in an expletive-laden video back in June, describing the former deputy foreign secretary as a "decent person".
The Irish rocker admitted he had "no bloody idea" where the Conservative MP's Sutton Coldfield constituency was as he urged people to vote for his Tory pal. "The party that Andrew Mitchell is a member of is not important to me. What is important is that he's.