30th January
Marking 20 years of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales voted Beard of Winter 2021
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that competition has bristled for the annual Beard of Winter accolade. On its 20th anniversary founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales shaved the opposition to win the seasonal award. He got 40.8% of the vote
Author Michael Rosen and actor Brian Blessed were joint runners up with 24% each and cricket broadcaster Daniel Norcross brought up the tail
The Beard of Winter is the first of four seasonal awards that lead to the Beard of the Year Award in December 2021.
The Beard of Winter focuses both on fuller organic beards, suitable for winter weather, but also on beards that have made an early New Year impact in the public eye.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we congratulate Jimmy Wales whose has had a long term gravitas adding beard. We’re also pleased to note that the Beard Liberation Front has had a Wikipedia entry since 2006
There were two ‘Trim-Off’ rounds from 17-20 January and then from 21-24 January. Each featured four contenders. The top two from each round featured in a final ‘Beard-Off’ vote from 25-29th January
Beard of Winter 2021 Shortlist
Arnie Schwarzenegger, actor
Tim Farron, MP
Brian Blessed, actor (Through to Beard Off)
Daniel Norcross, broadcaster (Through to Beard Off)
Jack Dorsey, CEO Twitter
Steve Bell, Guardian cartoonist
Jimmy Wales, founder Wikipedia (Through to Beard Off)
Michael Rosen, author and broadcaster (Through to Beard Off)
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