Beard Liberation Front
Media Release 19th March
Contact: Keith Flett 07803 167266
Jeremy Clarkson denied place on Beard of Spring 2021 shortlist after Sunday Times comments
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that despite the fact that Jeremy Clarkson has grown a lockdown #3 beard, he will not have a place on the Beard of Spring 2021 shortlist.
Clarkson has beard history and it is not always positive.
He grew a beard in 2014 but by 2015 he was writing in a tabloid paper in 2015 that people with beards should be arrested. It appears however that he did not turn himself into police.
The Beard Liberation Front Beard Award review team met on 14th March to discuss comments that Clarkson had made in his Sunday Times column on 7th March. They included his view that he had dribbled in his beard and food had become lodged in it. The team noted that whether or not these comments were accurate they are amongst the well-known pogonophobic tropes in existence. Accordingly Jeremy Clarkson will not feature on the Beard of Spring shortlist whether he keeps his beard or not.
The shortlist for Beard of Spring 2021 will be unveiled on 20th March and the winner announced after a public on-line vote on Easter weekend.
It is the second seasonal vote of 2021 that goes towards the Beard of the Year vote in December 2021
Those on the shortlist must have promoted a positive image of the hirsute in the public eye during the quarter. They don’t need to have a permanent full-time beard.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, it appears that Mr Clarkson’s main aim in growing a beard is to use the occasion to make comments which denigrate beard wearers. He will not appear on the Beard of Spring 2021 shortlist.
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