This Dude is Getting All of Sir Mix-A-Lot's Dirty Sexts After Acquiring His Old Phone Number

Getting a new phone number can be loads of fun. You stop getting texts from Domino's – who had come to know your menstrual cycle inside out and began to send you monthly reminders about Two For Tuesday (both for you) – and there are always a few beautiful days when you still have everybody's details but nobody has yours, so you can terrorise close friends and people you don't really like with crap memes and pregnancy scares. Getting a new phone number is less fun, though, when the number you're acquiring used to belong to Sir Mix-A-Lot.

Jonathan Nichols, a former law student at Seattle University, recently explained in an interview with The Seattle Times that he bought a new phone in 2012, picking out the number at the Verizon store just because it was easy to remember, and soon began receiving nonsensical texts: messages from luxury-car dealerships asking him to come take their new Lambo for a spin, links to YouTube videos of people making beats with synthesisers, and shitloads of sexts.

"I think you have the wrong guy. I'm a broke law student", Nichols would reply. "That’s pretty cool, but you clearly have the wrong number," and finally, "You need to stop."

Things started to make sense when, on August 12, he was flooded with birthday wishes for Anthony Ray. The Seattle Times piece describes, "Photos of women with lips pursed", "Texts that said “Love you,” and “Happy Birthday.” A photo of a bottle of “Big Bottom” whiskey. And more women. After Googling the name, sure enough, 90s rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot showed up.

The Seattle Times reached out to Sir Mix-A-Lot himself about it, who responded: "Are you serious? That is hilarious. Poor fella." Mix also offered some top tier advice, such as: “Don’t check any text messages in front of your wife,” and “Tell him any really sexy pictures – little in the middle, and if she’s got much back – give them the new number."

So there you have it people. Another little insight into the world of being famous for all us normal people with office jobs: it turns out celebs get tonnes of sexts on the regular. Not even mega celebs; we're talking Sir Mix-a-lot. To be fair, I'm glad I don't, because I'm on a very affordable new deal with Giff Gaff, which I took on exchange for lower data allowance, so forty nudes a day just wouldn't suit my budgeting.