UK disputes SRK claim on scanner
A British airport company has denied Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s claim that airport employees had printed his body scan image.
Shah Rukh Khan had told his host Jonathan Ross during a television interview that he went through a new type of airport scanner at a London airport that showed him completely naked. Body-scanning equipment was introduced in February at Heathrow’s Terminal 4 as part of a UK government move to further strengthen security at airports. Gatwick Airport, which till December was owned by BAA, does not have any body scanners installed as yet.“I was in London, going through the airport. The new machines have come out, the body scan ones. I hope you don’t have to go through them because it makes you feel embarrassed if you are not well endowed,” he told Ross in an interview which was telecast on Friday night.“When you walk into the machine the whole outline of your body comes out. I didn’t know this and I was a little scared.”After the scan, he said, “Then I saw these girls — they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said ‘give them to me’ — and you could see everything inside. Then I autographed them for them.”However, BAA which owns the Heathrow Airport said the actor’s claims were “factually incorrect.”A BAA spokesperson told this newspaper that the body scanners had no ability to print the body scans.
Age Correspondent London
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