Beard Liberation Front
11th August 2020
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Not Pointless. Richard Osman named Sideburns Wearer of the Year
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said Pointless’s Richard Osman has been named Sideburns Wearer of the Year after an extensive review of fashionable sideburns wearers
The ninth National Sideburns Day on 11th August, reflects the growing popularity of a range of facial hair styles.
National Sideburns Day was originally held to mark Bradley Wiggins Olympic victory in 2012
The campaigners say that sideburns, sometimes known as mutton chops, and named after US Civil War General Ambrose Burnside were often worn by Victorian politicians
Bradley Wiggins reinvented the post-1945 tradition of sideburns from Elvis Presley to Noddy Holder and the late Lemmy and Alvin Stardust, turned them into something no self-respecting hipster would be without
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, this year, Richard Osman is sometimes fully hirsute but he is regular flourishing of well styled sideburns on Pointless has kept the traditional but still fashionable style in the public eye.
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