Beard Liberation Front
28th July
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Author Michael Rosen does Beard Award Double
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that author and Arsenal Fan Michael Rosen has become the first ever person to win two Beard Awards in the same year.
On 27th June Rosen won the on-line vote for Beard of Summer 2020, the culmination of the annually held National Beard Week
On 25th July Rosen was also voted the Best Beard of Lockdown in a special one-off vote to celebrate one of the more positive aspects of lockdown, the flourishing of beards.
In both cases actor Michael Sheen was second and tweeted his congratulations to Rosen.
Michael Rosen was very ill in hospital in April and May. He has tweeted that he understands that on one occasion his beard was shaved while he was in a medically induced coma. However the campaigners say that pruning of the beard promotes its longer term health and Rosen’s beard has shown great resilience.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Michael Rosen is well known as an author and broadcaster and much loved by generations of children and parents. To that can now be added his beard which has set the style zeitgeist for summer 2020.
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