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Eva Mendes: I ate hairy kangaroo tail

Actress says it tastes like beef jerky

Eva Mendes' partner is film-maker George Gargurevich

Eva Mendes once ate kangaroo tail while holidaying in Australia.

‘I was shooting a movie in Melbourne and decided to take a road trip to Uluru. I hooked up with these spectacular Aboriginal women who insisted on cooking for me,’ Eva tells Live.

‘They got these kangaroo tails, wrapped them in tin foil and threw them on the fire, with the hair still on them. Kangaroo tail tastes like the worst beef jerky you’ve tasted in your life.’

Eva, 34, was given a delicious treat for dessert.

‘They serve up grubs for afters,' she recalls. 'You find a tree, crack open the branches and there are these fat old worms, ready to be slightly fried and eaten.

‘After eating the kangaroo tails, the grubs were like the world’s finest tiramisu, believe me.’

Preeti Das