Katherine Ryan

Katherine Ryan is a Canadian comedian, UK based, who some of you might remember as being in that video for Comic Relief where she plays the part of Nicki Minaj and wears an inflatable posterior.

She's just appeared on a show on UK TV tonight, Alan Davies - As Yet Untitled which is an unscripted show where comedians sit around and talk about whatever comes to mind.

Anyway, she mentioned her brush with 'inflatophilia'. She spoke of a time before she was famous (and was presumably living in Canada given the reference to dollars) where she worked at a restaurant and they had a guy phone in pretending to be from a radio show offering any waitresses who inflated their stockings a hundred dollar prize from the station as part of some wacky radio thing. Her and her friends complied, and sent him photos as well as role-playing scenarios over the phone but when they went to the radio station to collect their prize they were informed it was a known pervert with no connection to the radio station who was known for doing stuff like this. They then found he'd been uploading the images to the internet.

Don't know how true this is of course, comedians will understandably embellish stories of their lives for comic effect, and the idea that they would phone him and roleplay seems a little far fetched, but that was the story in any case. I'm sure it is of interest to many people here. Listening to it I would place the events, if true as being around 10-12 years ago. I've certainly never come across any photos of Katherine Ryan in my time.

She is aware that her Nicki Minaj sketch was picked up on by the community. Says she had completely forgotten about it but the pervert hadn't forgotten her (though whether that means she actually encountered the same guy is unsure).

It could be nothing... or we could have a prankster in our midst.