NEWS COPY – WITH PICTURES AND VIDEOS – by Izzy Ferris
A long-suffering wife has told how she puts up with the world’s most annoying husband who torments her with daily pranks and gags – which he puts on YouTube.
Pest Stuart Valentino, 34, has been pulling practical jokes on his wife Samantha, 34, since their very first date and plays tricks on her and their four children every day.
His cringe-worthy gags have included spending a whole weekend slapping his family with a fish and drawing a monkey face on sleeping Samantha’s bum and ‘feeding it’ a banana.
Other pranks include:
- Pulling down his father-in-law’s trousers – only to realize he didn’t have pants on
- Putting ice cream on his wife’s head as she slept
- Throwing flour over the children as they sleep
- Pretending to eat a cat poo – making Samantha physically sick
- Dressing up in drag to greet his step-son’s new girlfriend for the first time
- A ‘shaving foam alarm clock’ – covering his kids in foam to wake them up.
Irritating Stuart’s tricks have racked up an impressive 300,000 You Tube views since he started sharing them after he got married in 2013.
Tolerant Samantha said she accepts she has the world’s most annoying husband but thinks his unusual sense of humor is “refreshing” and wouldn’t change him at all.
The mum-of-four said: “He’s just awful, he just doesn’t know when to stop. It’s got to the point now that we are used to it, there is never a quiet time.
“Everyone gets it, my friends and family are targets the second they walk through. He’s just constantly going.
“It’s silly things, like I’ll be getting something out of the boot of the car and he’ll just come along and knock me into the back of it.
“People always tell me he must be the most annoying husband in the world and people think I’m crazy for still being with him, but at the end of the day they all like him and they think he’s really funny – so I think that sums it up really.
“If other people lived in my house they would definitely sleep with one eye open. As it is I do my best to stay up as late as I can.
“I’ll often try and wait up for him but he stays up so late waiting for me to go to sleep, you just know that he is planning something.
“I’d say it would be a hard push to find anyone else that would be prepared to put with how irritating he can be.”
The pair met at a nightclub six years ago and he played his first prank within a few days when he pretended to eat a cat poo – a fake – which made Samantha instantly vomit.
Miraculously she agreed to see him again and in spite of Stuart’s bizarre pranks they tied the knot in May 2013.
Now the van driver from Southsea, near Portsmouth, regularly torments Samantha’s children from a previous relationship – Callum, 16, Luke, 12, and Lana, 11 – as well as their daughter Ayla, two.
Cleaner Samantha said: “He was quite silly from the moment I met him really, but he’s very lovely and to be honest I found it quite entertaining and refreshing.
“He hasn’t annoyed me so much I feel the need to leave him just yet. I could see it. If I was having a really bad day I can see him being served with divorce papers.”
And while Stuart said he has no intention of stopping, he appreciates his wife must be one of the most understanding in the world.
“At the end of the day it’s all just entertainment – in our house it’s like a real life Tom and Jerry,” he said.
“Everyone, extended family and friends, knows exactly what they are in for the second they walk through our front door.
“Even her parents know to expect it now. They came around for Christmas a couple of years ago and her step dad was stood on the door step.
“I just tugged his trousers and they fell straight down but he’d forgotten to put pants on that morning so he was just stood on the doorstep waving completely naked.
“People tell me I am the most annoying husband all the time. They say that they would have killed me by now if they were with me.
“Everyone always says she deserves a medal for putting up with me all the time.
“A lot of people on Youtube have commented on the videos saying they can’t believe she is still with me.
“At the end of the day she’s always smiling – there’s never a dull moment in the house.”
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