Heath Ledger Scares Subway Passengers, And Not In Some Method Acting Prep For Joker, Either

We can’t decide if Heath Ledger’s particularly shambolic nature post-break-up with Michelle Williams is due to his having been living hard and fast, or whether he is a textbook example of having “let himself go”.

His hobo chic might have been giving out clues suggesting the latter is the case, but now a bunch of subway travellers have noted that Ledger seems to be taking his ‘derelicte’ look a little too far.

“I got quite a whiff,” one onlooker, who came within sniffing distance of the Oscar-nominated star, tells OK!. “He smelled pretty unwashed.”

The 10 Things I Hate About You star, who split from girlfriend and babymama Michelle Williams this summer, added a few more reasons to dislike him with his now-trademark homeless-chic look: red-framed sunglasses, an oversize lilac knitted hat and a fleece-lined jacket. “It’s clearly never seen the inside of a laundromat,” the witness tells.

Poor Heath. It seems his fine work in Brokeback Mountain is but a distant memory as he’s destined to be known as a former teen star who broke up with his more-famous partner.

All the “Jack Twist, I swear…”s in the world won’t save him now!