Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: celebrity biographies with unfortunate misprints

‘What a farce of nature he was! Together we were the perfect comic dud.’ [Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 26 November 2022

In Competition No. 3276, you were invited to supply an extract from the memoir of a celebrity with some unfortunate misprints.

Step forward, Nick MacKinnon’s Matt Hancock: ‘I was sorry that “bushtucker trials” wasn’t a typo, as I am expert at handling pubic heath during box-tickling exercises on hidden cameras’; Basil Ransome-Davies’s Nigel Farage: ‘I proudly affirm that Make Britain Grate is the slogan of a go-ahead, viral nation. Believe me, as president of the Deform UK Party, I swear that Britain comes above all…’; and, last but not least, Brian Murdoch’s Prince Harry, whose panic–inducing tell-all was the inspiration for this challenge: ‘Living with the pressures of loyalty didn’t agree with us, and we decided to lie in California.’

The winners below earn £25 each.

I came back after Paul died by doing Strictly, but I had to do some pirates to regain my puff. When you don’t exercise your pelvic flaw, you can miss out on winning prizes, and I so wanted atrophy.

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