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Beard Liberation Front

28th December

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A Vintage Year for Beards as Michael Rosen & Michael Sheen named Beards of the Year 2020

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has confirmed that the author Michael Rosen and the actor Michael Sheen have shared the 2020 Beard of the Year Award.

Rylan Clark-Neal won the coveted award in 2019

Michael Sheen achieved 53.2% of the popular vote to Michael Rosen’s 34.7%. However looking across 2020, while Sheen won the vote for the Beard of Wales in March, Rosen won votes for the Beard of Summer in June, the Beard of Lockdown in July and the Beard of Autumn in October. In the circumstances the BLF Electoral College meeting on 27^th December determined that the 2020 Beard of the Year Award is shared.

The campaigners say that it has been a vintage year for beards, if for not much else. Lockdowns and stay at home policies across the world have led to a significant growth in beards

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, as usual for Beard of the Year we were looking not just for a style or length of beard but those that had a positive impact in the public eye. In 2020 both Michael Rosen and Michael Rosen have been superb ambassadors for the hirsute. We congratulate them.

Beard of the Year 2020 Finalists

Michael Rosen (author & broadcaster, winner Beard of Summer & Beard of Autumn)

Michael Sheen (actor, winner Beard of Wales)

Peter Coles (cosmologist, winner Beard of Ireland)

Bill Bailey (dancer & comedian)