Bananas in Pyjamas star claims iconic B1 and B2 costumes stolen by Russian mobsters [Video]

A Bananas in Pyjamas star has told how the Russian mafia allegedly tried to skin the ABC for $100,000 while holding the show’s famous costumes hostage.

Kenneth Radley, who played B1 in hit 90s kids’ show, said he learned recently that the suits were stolen during a global marketing trip around the world.

And it was going to cost big to get them back.

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“They took the banana suits all around the world to get photographs at iconic places, they just put dancers or somebody in the suits,” Radley told The Final Encore podcast.

“It was (head of marketing and franchising) Grahame Grassby who took the suits to Russia and it was just him and the suits and the suits went missing in their road cases.”

Radley, who starred as B1 for a decade, said the costumes had been “stolen by the Russian mafia in Moscow” and “we didn’t even know this until …