HEROES star Ali Larter has been cursed by a Sumo wrestler after a good luck hug turned bad.

The sexy actress asked a leading Japanese wrestler to pick her up and hug her during a recent promotional trip to Japan - after learning the act was good luck. She says, “If a sumo wrestler picks you up it’s really good luck, so I was really excited and I asked him to pick me up and he picked me up and I thought, ‘OK, things are gonna be great now.’

“Ever since he picked me up I have had horrible luck - I lost my keys… then my car actually got keyed and someone took a baseball bat and smashed in my front windshield, and then I dropped my phone in a pond.”

HEROES actress ALI LARTER put all her energy into undressing for an episode of the U.S television show in a bid to be the ‘world’s best stripper’.

Educating herself in lap-dancing clubs, Larter was not daunted by the prospect and spent “four hours a day for a whole week up and down a lap-dancer’s pole”. She says, “I thought, ‘If I’m going to do this I’m going to be the best goddamn stripper the world has ever seen.’ So I really threw myself into it.”

The ex-model and star of 1999 movie Varsity Blues insists she discovered ‘a new-found respect’ for women in the lap-dancing profession.

source: contactmusic.com