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Sam Fender To Give Another Brit Award to Low Lights Tavern in North Shields
North Shields legend Sam Fender may be making waves in music around the world but he’s never forgotten his roots.
And when he’s not travelling the world, he and his band enjoy popping in for a few pints in their local pub the Low Lights Tavern.
The ‘Seventeen Going Under’ star already has one Brit under his belt, having been chosen as the recipient of the Critics Choice award back in 2019. But this year, the alternative musician is up for three awards at this year’s Brit Awards with the public voting for one of them.
He’s up for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Rock/Alternative this year – the winner of the latter is chosen by the public. Users of TikTok will be able to cast up to ten votes per category, per day, with vote limits resetting at midnight GMT every night for the duration of the voting window.
Sam took to Instagram to try get fans behind him. It was in this video that he promised to put the Brit on display at his beloved Low Lights Tavern should he win.
Explaining how the Brits public vote works this year, he said: “I’ve been nominated for a Brit Award, well for three; but there’s one that’s fan voted and it’s voted for on TikTok.
“So, if you can, you can vote for us 10 times a day if you’re that much of a legend.
“So I can have another Brit Award and put it on the pub and turn it into a bar bump again.”
Sam already gave the North Shields pub his first Brit to make into a beer pump. Cameron Boyd, who owns the Low Lights with Danny Higney, said the whole community is behind him.
“Everybody loves to see him doing well, all the local people are behind him, he’s got the whole of North Shields behind him.
“He’s proud of where he comes from, he’s not a Newcastle lad, he’s a North Shields lad and he’s so supportive of the little town he’s come from. It’s really important to him.”
Sam released his second studio album ‘Seventeen Going Under’ in October last year. This followed his debut release ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ back in 2019.
You can vote for Sam via the social vote here!
Be quick though, as voting closes in just eight days time at 6pm GMT Thursday February 3.
The winners will be revealed at the Brit Awards ceremony on Tuesday February 8 at The O2 arena, which will be broadcast on ITV.
Good luck Sam! The North-East are all behind you!
Entertainment
Yorkie’s ‘not for girls’ advert from 2002 has gone viral and people can’t believe it aired
With over two decades passing, some people are only just discovering the Yorkie ‘not for girls’ advert from 2002, and they can’t believe it.
That’s right, over 20 years have passed and younger generations are only just coming across the advert for Nestle’s thick milk chocolate bar, with mixed opinions on it.
Many can’t believe it made it onto TV, while others think the advert was ‘proper genius’ and ‘just a joke’. Either way, all would agree it probably wouldn’t go down so well today.
The Yorkie slogan in 2002 went as follows: “Five big chunks of masculine chocolate. Yorkie… it’s not for girls.”
The advert shows a woman disguising herself as a man to try to purchase a Yorkie bar from the shop.
One person recalled: “As a girl I simply accepted the fact I would be arrested for attempting to buy a Yorkie.”
While another chimed in: “Yep, and I remember the massive kick off. I haven’t bought a Yorkie since.”
Others said they thought it was a great marketing tactic from Nestle seeing as it caused many women to head out to buy a bar in defiance, and many men choosing the chocolate while enjoying and benefitting from the ride – a successful marketing campaign, for sure.
Do you remember the advert well? See the video below either for the first time or to brush up on your early 2000’s tv knowledge!
The full video here –
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Broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88, the BBC has announced.
The former journalist was one of British television’s most famous faces through his talk show Parkinson, which initially ran on the BBC from 1971 to 1982.
He relaunched the show on the BBC in 1998 before it moved to ITV in 2004, until he retired the programme in 2007.
Over more than 800 episodes, Sir Michael interviewed some of the world’s most high-profile figures – including Muhammad Ali, Sir Elton John and George Michael – and helped make comedian Sir Billy Connolly a household name.
But despite his long and industrious career, Sir Michael’s 2003 interview with Meg Ryan went down in history as one of his most memorable shows.
The chat show king was faced with a stony-faced Ryan, who delivered one-word answers as she promoted her poorly received erotic thriller The Cut.
More than 20 years later, he offered an apology to the actress and admitted neither of them were on “top form”.
In 2013, Sir Michael revealed he was being treated for prostate cancer – but said he had no intention of stopping working.
Netflix have released a brand new film starring Gal Gadot, titled “Heart of Stone”. The American spy action thriller is centred around Rachel Stone, an intelligence operative who stands between her powerful global peacekeeping organization and the loss of its most valuable and dangerous asset.
A certain clip from the film has been going around Twitter recently though due to the costume of one of its characters.
During an intense chase scene where Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) is fleeing from the pursuing gunmen hunting her down, one of the characters can be seen to be wearing none other than Middlesbrough’s home shirt from the 09/10 season!
One Twitter user wrote, “@Boro, how the hell did this happen? Sat watching the new @GalGadot film and a bloody Boro fan is trying to kill her!!!”
You can see the clip here! – https://twitter.com/borochubster/status/1690486750362165248?s=46
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