Beard Liberation Front
21st December
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Competition bristles for Beard of the Year 2019
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the process of determining the Beard of the Year 2019 is in its final days. The on-line poll to determine the winner is now open and will close on December 24th
The winner is announced on December 28th.
Competition is bristling amongst the front runners including Times Literary Supplement Editor Stig Abell, It Takes Two host Rylan Clark-Neal and Derbyshire Councillor Ben Bellamy
The criteria for Beard of the Year is as follows:
The Award is NOT about people who grow beards in their bedrooms and post pictures of them on the internet
The Award IS about people with consistent beards in the public eye who promote a positive image of the hirsute
TV doctor Xand Van Tulleken and cosmologist Peter Coles currently at Maynooth University in Ireland shared the Award in 2018.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the last weeks of the poll always see the heaviest voting and it may yet be that the current leaders are shaved for the Beard of the Year Honour by others
Beard of the Year 2019 shortlist
Rylan Clark-Neal
Ben Bellamy
Jeremy Corbyn
Alexei Sayle
Mauricio Pochettino
Billy Connolly
Ben Stokes
Jurgen Klopp
Bob Harris
Stig Abell
Michael Rosen
Idris Elba
Billy Bragg
George Clooney
Chris Woakes
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