The Wrestler star risked incurring the wrath of highways maintenance chiefs when he punched over a barrier erected to block off roadworks.

Mickey was on top mischievous form outside the Wellington Club, stealing a pap’s camera and proceeding to snap photographers.

He then stepped his misbehaviour up a gear when he picked a fight with a plastic fence protecting pedestrians from a gaping hole in the pavement.

We’ve got a feeling that this wasn’t a show Mickey put on for the benefit of photographers. He probably walks down the street, chatting up nannies pushing strollers, commuters on the way to the train, telling them about his fascinating life of glamor and then offering to demonstrate his athletic prowess on the nearest movable object.

And now we present Mickey Rourke beating up a fence. There’s video at The Sun, but the pics are better. We just love how he hangs on to his cigarette the whole time. Priorities, man.

Actress Bai Ling has blasted reports of a romance with The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke. The rumour mill was sent into overdrive after The Crow actress was spotted attending a party with Rourke in Los Angeles in January, with witnesses insisting the pair were kissing at the bash.

But a spokesperson for the Chinese actress has now dashed speculation she deliberately befriended the star to raise her own profile, insisting they are just pals.

Her representative tells New York gossip column PageSix, "While Bai Ling, who is single, has dated a lot during her career, she isn't some 'whore' who hooks on to rising actors. She considers Mickey Rourke a friend. He sent a car for her. She never had an interest in dating him. The next day it was all over the tabloids… Though she is an iconoclast with her fashion, too often she's mislabeled as a tawdry Holly Golightly."

Which is a fancy way of saying, "Yeah, she dated Nick Carter, but she draws the line at kissing the meatball lips of Mickey Rourke." Everyone has their limits.

Mickey Rourke admits he went to the "wrong guy" for plastic surgery.

The 'Wrestler actor – who started boxing professionally in 1991 after his Hollywood career collapsed – claims most of the facial cosmetic procedures he underwent were to correct injuries sustained from the sport.

He said: "Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together. I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone. I had to have cartilage taken from my ear to rebuild my nose and a couple of operations to scrape out the cartilage because the scar tissue wasn't healing properly. That was one of the most painful operations, but the worst was hemorrhoids."

Yeah, we can imagine having hemorrhoids on one's face would be pretty bad. We always though his hammy lips looked suspiciously like a b-hole.

ï Mr Skin announces Anatomy Award nominees! Holy hooters! (Mr Skin)

ï Jessica Simpson straps on some short shorts to irk the h8rs. (Drunken Stepfather)

ï Halle Berry is going to shave her head for a movie role. We're sure she'll look as ugly as usual. (IMDb)

ï Michael Douglas's son Cameron stops paying rent, then leaves his place coated in needles and blackened spoons. Because he's Michael Douglas's son, and he's ruggedly handsome and above the law and impervious to bullets. He does what the fuck he wants. (ILYITW)

ï Today is Jennifer Aniston's 40th birthday, and ex-boyfriend John Mayer wrote her a song. It goes, "Lordy lordy! Jen is forty! So many candles blazin'. Lordy, Lordy! Jen's forty! Her vadge looks like a craisin." (I'm Not Obsessed)

ï Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love are reportedly dating in secret. That's cool, they have a lot in common. Like injecting stuff into their faces. And wearing scarves. (Socialite Life)

ï Katherine Heigl and T. R. Knight are leaving the cast of Grey's Anatomy. Which should leave them with a lot of free time to do their favorite hobbies: smoking things. Cigarettes and men's wieners, respectively. (Anything Hollywood)

ï Mischa Barton. Lookin' gooooooood. (The Blemish)

ï Kate Hudson is once again letting the Butterscotch Stallion nibble her sugar cubes with his velvety muzzle. (Allie Is Wired)

ï Don't be a douche-ku. Ogle Eliza Dushku in Maxim. (Daily Stab)

Iím upset because I feel disrespected by the press and by Mr. Rourke. Just because Iím single doesnít mean that you can take advantage of me. Itís unfair that the performances might suffer because of all of these distractions. I'm not attracted to him, he's too old for me. Nothing ever happened and nothing ever will.

Duh, 40 is her cut off. And she prefers her men with smooth, kabuki-painted faces and soft, feminine man boobs. Mickey is obviously too tan, and his bosoms are far too chiseled.

ï He always fills his ballroom. The event is never small. The social pages say Ricky Gervais has got the biggest balls of all. (Female First)

ï Rihanna in a bikini for GQ Mexico. Ole. (Drunken Stepfather)

ï Those pesky Mickey Rourke doing it with Evan Rachel Wood rumors rear their ugly (but not as ugly as meatball-faced Mickey) heads again. (CelebWarship)

ï Any opportunity to ogle Jessica Biel's buoyant ass in a bikini is a cause for celebration. Hosannas all around!(The Blemish)

ï Britney Spears's brutal abs will grab you, slap you around, and stuff you in a locker. (Hollywood Tuna)

ï Ginger Spice is engaged to a guy she's known for a few weeks. Nice one. (Anything Hollywood)

ï The Lingerie Bowl was canceled. Great. Now what are we going to do with these 35 pounds of wings. (Mr Skin)

ï The sexiest celebrity lips. (Manofest)

ï In the epic battle of Jessica Alba vs. Bill O'Reilly, only one can emerge the victor. (Daily Stab)

MICKEY Rourke is already reaping the benefits of his comeback. The star of "The Wrestler" was at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood the other night with Sean Penn and his long-suffering wife, Robin Wright Penn, when, our witnesses said, Rourke was accosted by fame-craving Bai Ling. Rourke was only too happy to oblige the Chinese-born actress and the two "made out and partied pretty hard."

This match makes perfect sense. Her cooch is probably so chapped and numb from constant exposure to the elements that she'll barely feel his giant ham hands. Everybody wins.

ìSpread the word ñ Iím not dating Mickey Rourke. Everybody thinks weíre dating and weíre not. Mickey and I bonded while shooting The Wrestler and we became friends, but nothing more. I guess, because of my recent break up, I will be linked to many people, but I am not interested in pursuing a relationship at this point in my life. Any such rumor should not be taken seriously.î

Normally if the press tried to connect a pretty 20-year-old with a hatchet-faced 52-year-old who once mimed squirting honey into Kim Basinger's vagine, we'd laugh and laugh, but in this case it seems perfectly plausible. When one shacks up with Marilyn Manson and it fails to piss off dad? Where does one go? We expect every boyfriend she takes from here on out to be older and more physically repellent than the last; a dating ladder of monstrosity that will not stop until she ends up marrying Shaggy 2 Dope from the Insane Clown Posse. Or Burt Reynolds.

ERW shows it off nakedly at MrSkin.com.

On the set of his latest film "The Wrestler," Mickey Rourke went all Method and taped a blade to his forearm. "When the time was right," co-star Wass Stevens tells the New York Post, "[he] sliced his forehead." And Mick apparently hurt himself ñ he says he had three MRIs before the end of filming.

Rourke is getting serious Oscar buzz for the performance.

That sounds pretty extreme, but having blades slice into the mottled flesh of the face is not really anything out of the ordinary for Mickey Rourke. He usually refers to it as "Wednesday".