Francis Wheen bearded by Paxman, Malone & Brand for Beard of Year Nomination

PRESS RELEASE  20th November

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Francis Wheen bearded by Paxman, Malone & Brand for Beard of Year nomination

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that with just a week to go until the close of nominations for Beard of the Year shortlist author Francis Wheen is being bearded by Jeremy Paxman, Gareth Malone & Russell Brand for a place on the shortlist

Wheen, who has grown a magnificant Karl Marx style beard is in the lead for a nomination but others are gaining on him

A shortlist of candidates will be issued on 28^th November with the winner announced after a poll on December 28^th.

As joint winner of one of the four seasonal quarterly awards Tony Benn is automatically on the shortlist but he has also been nominated by Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, himself a veteran standard wearer for the hirsute and former winner of the Award.

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said The battle to get on the Beard of the Year shortlist looks set to be the hairiest ever

The Beard of the Year 2013 Automatic nominees

Billy Bragg [Beard of Winter]

Matt Prior [joint Beard of Spring]

Michael Rosen [joint Beard of Spring]

Tony Benn [joint Beard of Summer]

Michael Eavis [joint Beard of Summer]

Tim Howard [Beard of Autumn]

Possible Contenders

Russell Brand

Jeremy Corbyn

Steven Gerrard

Gareth Malone

Mike Napoli

Geoff Parling

Jeremy Paxman

Jay Rayner

Francis Wheen

 Brian Wilson

 

 

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