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Orlando Bloom Actor

FIRES ARROWS FROM INSIDE HORSE RUMP

The Registry confirms he is the back half, and that the front half has been told to keep going

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Orlando Bloom measures a hotel conference room window for curtains, holding the tape like a drawn bowstring.
Location
Behind a pantomime horse head outside a supermarket car park, Adelaide, bay 14
Currently
Back half of a pantomime horse, still firing arrows
Last confirmed sighting
Bending forwards in a hessian rump, Adelaide trolley bay, Tuesday matinee
Observations
Can balance a longbow on one hoof while standing in two different postcodes.

He now works as the back half of a pantomime horse at a community hall beside an Adelaide supermarket car park. The front half, a retired driving instructor named Gwen, has never once seen his face. He is paid in oats and half a meat pie.

His elven archery keeps surfacing. Between scenes he fires rolled-up programmes at the exit sign from inside the rump, never missing, and he leaps from the stage onto stairs at the back of the hall sliding on a tray. The tail swishes with unsettling grace and the hair on it has grown long and floaty.

People ask whether he can be seen without the costume. He can, but he declines and his stance is that a blacksmith's apprentice always works from behind. They also ask if he will ever play the front half. He says the front half has to be earnest and he is, apparently, too earnest for it.

Guidance for the public

Applaud the front half too, and do not offer the rear any carrots.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 23 October 2026. Born 13 January 1977. Source: Wikidata

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