My Sprout Video
A few years ago a friend and I had national TV coverage. We told the tabloids (they believe anything) that we had invented a "Sprout Diet" and that my friend had lost three stone in weight.
There was a media frenzy. He appeared in all of the daily newspapers including The Sun, The Star, The Daily Mirror etc. and lots of local TV. We even went on The Big Breakfast (anyone remember that!) with Johnny Vaughan and Denis Van Outen.
It was a bit crazy. We made some money selling stories to women’s magazines ("My girlfriend left me because of my sprout smell!" etc.). Kate Winslet even said she went on the diet.
But it all went a bit wrong when someone called up, crying, telling us that they had tried every diet under the sun. Would ours work?
We gave up our Sproutman campaign at that point.
Anyhow, I have dug up the video for all you Sprouters out there. Enjoy!
3 Comments – Post a comment
Sam Sprout (Editor)
Commented 67 months ago - 12th November 2010 - 09:24am
Bring back Zig & Zag.
Sprout Editor
Commented 67 months ago - 12th November 2010 - 16:07pm
This is just about the most random story I've ever heard. Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
Chainey
Commented 67 months ago - 12th November 2010 - 17:42pm
Well it became more random.
The power of blag!
After our eyes being opened to how easy it was to get in the main stream media, we came up with another scam.
"The Burger King" - Elvis Preseli. The worlds only bald, Welsh speaking, non-Elvis song singing, Elvis tribute artist.
We were banned from the Elvis festival in Porthcawl for enjoying our burgers a bit much. But again got into papers, this time around the world: Japan, Brazil, France, Ireland, Czech etc
Here is one of our films:
www.youtube.com/andrewchainey#p/u/1/CUurvR-B2G4
and our old website check out www.theburgerking.co.uk
We played Glastonbury, London, Czech Republic TV studio, A Croatian runway.
Crazy days.
Get out and do it kids!