Gucci prankster got ‘no attention as a child’

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Here’s a surprise: Juan Isidro Casilla (above), the guy who put himself in a bogus Gucci ad, which another Swiss paper printed, says he didn’t get enough love as a kid, and that MTV made him want to become famous. Maybe he should have been watching Juvies instead of The Hills. Read more (in German) over at the Swiss paper Blick.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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