Macaulay Culkin mistaken for tramp

MACAULAY CULKIN is far from the cherub-faced burglar-busting Kevin McCallister we remember.

Health fears were growing for the Home Alone star after he was mistaken for a tramp on a night out in London’s Shoreditch last week.

Smoking on a street coer at 2.30am with fingeails painted black, the multi-millionaire looked more like the sequel film’s bag lady.

Sports joualism student Marley Spindley, from Essex, took a picture of his pal Drew with his arm around Macaulay.

'Spaced out' ... Macaulay Culkin out in Shoreditch

Kids' fave ... Macaulay in Home Alone

Marley said: “I didn’t recognise him at first — I thought it was some homeless guy who was scrounging a smoke.

“We had a brief chat with him and his accent was American. It was only then that Drew asked him if he was Macaulay Culkin. Even then I wasn’t convinced. I’m no expert, but he didn’t seem all there.”

Fellow sports media student Drew added: “You would never have thought it was the same person who appeared in Home Alone.

“We chatted for about five minutes and he said he was in London seeing friends though he was vacant, speaking very quietly and mellow. He looked spaced out.

“You’d have thought he was a down-and-out, not a famous film star.”

Macaulay, who is over from the US on holiday, said when he was 14 that he was quitting acting after amassing an estimated £11million.

He married actress RACHEL MINER in 1998, divorced four years later and went out with MILA KUNIS for eight years before they split in 2010.

He was arrested in the US in 2004 for possession of marijuana and Alprazolam and Clonazepam anti-depressants and given three one–year suspended jail sentences.

Last year Macaulay denied American magazine reports claiming he was hooked on heroin.

He was on better form in Bristol on Wednesday, appearing on stage at boat club Thekla with music pal ADAM GREEN for a cover of BEACH BOYS track Kokomo.

Shame it’s the wrong time of year for White Christmas, he was decent at that.