Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter actor, used to enjoy tormenting the paparazzi in London; for six months, he purposefully wore the same clothing when leaving the theatre so that pictures would be useless.

The 17-year-old was met with cameras every night outside the Gielgud Theatre during his run in the controversial West End play Equus, where he disrobed onstage every night.

Daniel Radcliffe revealed his ingenious method for getting the paparazzi’s knickers in a twist on a Jay Leno appearance in 2007.

He says, “They (the paparazzi) were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse.

“I would wear the same outfit every time – a different T-shirt underneath, but I’d wear the
same jacket and zip it up so they couldn’t see what I was wearing underneath, and the
same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they (photos) became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there’s nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated.”

This life-hack was so amazing that it even fooled fashion editorial tables.

He said: “There was one hysterical moment when my ‘stage door outfit,’ as it was called, ended up on, like, one of the fashion bits in the newspaper, which is like an old dirty hat and a jacket that hasn’t been washed in ages and somehow it got in there. I was very proud.”