Ring-carrying owl savages best man at castle wedding
Full steam ahead with Shirley Carr’s embalmy career move
DAME Shirley Bassey is being honoured in her home country of Wales, where a steamengine carriage is to be named after her.
Dame Shirley, 81, who was born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, will attend a naming ceremony at the Snowdon Mountain Railway in May.
The singer, whose hits include Big Spender and Goldfinger, said: “I always look forward to going back to Wales, but to be honoured by Snowdon Mountain Railway makes this visit in May extra special.”
She is the latest Welsh singer to be given the honour, after Sir Bryn Terfel and Katherine Jenkins. Alan Kendall, boss of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, said: “We thought we’d save the best till last.” WITH this wing I thee whack – an owl swoops down to attack a best man at a wedding…
The bird had been carrying rings in a pouch for Jeni Arrowsmith, 30, and Mark Wood, 29, when it got spooked. It flew towards the second best man after he pointed to it and laid into him – sending him crashing to the ground. Jeni, of Wrexham, North Wales, said: “It was hilarious.” Photographer Stacey Oliver filmed the attack at Peckforton Castle in Tarporley, Cheshire.
She said: “The best man’s reaction was just great.” TV comic Alan Carr has confessed he once fancied becoming an embalmer.
Asked what he would have chosen if he hadn’t gone into TV, the Chatty Man host replied: “Something to do with death - pathologist, or maybe an embalmer.”
Before he found fame Carr, 41, did jobs including factory sweeping and shampoo packer, which is partly why he’s hosting Channel 4 game show I Don’t Like Mondays. Contestants compete to win a year off work with their wages paid in full, but must quit their job on the show.
He said: “I had the worst jobs going. So I would have been a regular on I Don’t Like Mondays”.