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Beard Liberation Front

11th April

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Beard of Spring 2020 Vote sees ‘Pointless’ victor as Richard Osman shaves Daniel Norcross

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the Beard of Spring Award has been won by Pointless’s Richard Osman who shaved  Test Match Special’s Dan Norcross who was in second place in the quarterly on-line poll.

There was a high turn-out with votes being almost 50% up on the equivalent 2019 poll.

Beard of Spring is the second of four seasonal awards that lead to the Beard of the Year in December.

The winner of each of the four seasonal votes gets an automatic place on the Beard of the Year longlist which will be revealed in November 2020.

The campaigners say that while the second seasonal award of the year traditionally focuses on new beard growth around the Easter period, the focus now is more on those whose beards have appeared in a positive public light during the quarter.

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Richard Osman’s victory in the Beard of Spring poll was far from Pointless but his supporters had to work hard in getting votes out to allow him to shave the resilient Dan Norcross.

Beard of Spring 2020 shortlist

Vaughan Gething, Welsh Health Secretary

Wayne Rooney, footballer

Mikel Arteta, football manager

Alun Wyn Jones, rugby player

Eric Cantona, philosopher

Daniel Norcross, broadcaster

Steve Bell, cartoonist

James Calder, CEO, SIBA

Jeremy Paxman, broadcaster

Roger Waters, musician

Richard Osman, Pointless