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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

British officials blew £7k hiring celebrity lookalikes for Queen's birthday bash

Civil servants blew £7,000 hiring celebrity lookalikes for a party to mark the Queen’s birthday.

The British Embassy bash in Sweden – which took place as the cost of living crisis gripped the UK – featured ‘stars’ such as David Bowie and Baby Spice.

Other performers in the Entourage Productions troupe even include a Boris Johnson doppelganger, who appears in the troupe chained and caged in a straitjacket.

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