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Special relationship on show at Cigar Smoker of the Year

It’s been ‘one hell of a year’ started Tom Parker Bowles in his opening address at this year’s Snow Queen Cigar Smoker of the Year Awards Dinner. The glitterati were out in full force as Americans and Brits came together to pay tribute to the best cigar smokers of 2016, as Kelsey Grammer was crowned ‘Cigar Smoker of the Year’, while Andrew Neil picked up the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.

Charlie Sheen — shortlisted for a gong — arrived to the event flanked by bodyguards and remarked that he had first been confused upon his nomination for ‘Cigar Smoker of the Year’ — having initially thought ‘I don’t have the right gown to wear’, before wondering why he had been invited at all. ‘Have you not f–king Googled this bitch?’ he asked a bemused crowd, before accusing Donald Trump of stealing his ‘winning’ philosophy.

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