A chimpanzee who went on the rampage in Stamford, Connecticut, and grievously wounded his owner's friend once appeared alongside actress Morgan Fairchild in a TV ad for clothing firm Old Navy.

The ape's owner, Sandra Herold, stabbed the chimp, called Travis, and beat him with a shovel in a bid to stop him ripping a visiting pal's face off before cops were forced to shoot the primate dead.

But Fairchild insists Travis was nothing but a sweetheart when they worked together. She told news show "Extra," "I have a great still photograph of us - he's sitting there with his arm round me."

And she's upset the ape is dead: "It is a sin that this animal had to be destroyed."

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