Kiwi ban after fans get all mushy on Styles
KIWI fruits were banned for concert goers after the singer Harry Styles was pelted with the fruit.
Fans of the former member of boy band One Direction threw the fruit at the singer during a gig at the London Hammersmith Apollo while he performed his song Kiwi.
But after video footage emerged of the 23-year-old slipping on the fruit, a Manchester branch of Asda took the step of banning sales of kiwis to under25-year-olds ahead of Styles’s upcom- ing concert in the city. He had joked in a radio interview that he was thankful he had not been “hit straight on with a kiwi yet”. Asda said: “We know our customers love Harry Styles and we feel it’s our duty to protect a fellow Mancunian from any ‘bad kiwis’.”
Despite the ban, he was pelted again during his performance in Manchester’s Apollo stadium.
AManchester supermarket has banned under-25s from buying kiwi fruit. It’s a matter of health and safety. The problem was that Harry Styles, the teen heart-throb, slipped on a kiwi fruit on stage. Mancunian fans were certainly not trying to give their hero the Chinese gooseberry (as we used to call kiwi fruit before a marketing drive in the Sixties). The egg-shaped projectiles had been thrown not in derision but as a tribute to a track from the singer’s new album. No one seems to know why the song is called Kiwi. Mr Styles does have ferns, a New Zealand emblem, tattooed on his body. But then, he has most things tattooed on his body: a birdcage, a mermaid, a rose, an anchor, a skeleton in a bowler hat, a pair of hands shaking, a Bible, a couple of swallows, a sailing ship and a black heart. It’s like a car-boot sale for pirates. Let us hope that young concertgoers, denied fruity throwing-supplies, do not begin lobbing skeletons and anchors. But at least kiwi fruit can return to their role as uneaten garnishes on the platters at office functions.