A couple have shared the moment they discovered Glastonbury Festival tickets inside a chocolate bar. The Manchester pair jumped for joy as they discovered the hidden golden tickets as part of a Willy Wonka-style charity competition.
Around 210,000 revellers will descend on Worthy Farm on June 21, and now Jovi Bunce from Didsbury will be one of them. Glastonbury Festival sold-out after the last remaining passes to the event were snapped up by music fans in just six minutes during a recent ticket resale, reports MEN.
But a number of organisations are giving away free tickets in competitions, including Oxfam which has hidden five pairs of tickets inside a special batch of Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate.
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Jovi loves the festival but was unable to secure a ticket for this year's bash. He told Manchester Evening News that came across an advertisement for the Tony's Chocolonely competition in the window of a local charity shop.
The 27-year-old said: "When we missed out on the tickets I thought ‘I couldn’t believe it, I’m not going to Glastonbury'. I walked past an Oxfam shop and I saw a sign on the window, I walked in and the lady said they were quite popular, so I picked out a few randomly."
Jovi bought five chocolate bars for £4 each. He opened the first one on his way to the gym to no luck. He opened another at a friend’s house but was also unsuccessful.
It wasn’t until when he met up with his girlfriend Abigail Pearce who had been away for the weekend when they finally struck gold. He said: "My girlfriend asked me to meet her, she had been away.
"I explained my weekend to her and that I did something sort of stupid and bought these chocolate bars. She was like, 'can I open one and can we film it?' I didn’t think anything of it."
In the 44-second clip that was posted on Youtube, the pair are opening the chocolate bar and sharing jokes with the hopes of being the lucky ones. Before opening the wrapper, Abigail even does the Hail Mary and points to the skies calling on the spirits to help her.
When she opens the wrapper a roller coaster of emotions are displayed between the two when Abigail thinks she has won the tickets. Unable to catch her breath, she stutters and stumbles over her words before what she thinks is reality sets in.
She properly opens the chocolate bar she finds the lucky ticket which is when her and Jovi go wild. He exclaims "no way" as the pair run across the living room.
Jovi said: "I think it was because of the way she reacted. She had seen something but thought it was an advert for the company or something.
"It was just like 'what the f*** this is mental'! I don’t think I’ve ever felt like that in my life."
Headliners for this year's event have now been revealed, with Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John all set to take the prime spot on the Pyramid Stage.
Other acts on the bill include Lizzo and Aitch, as well as Slowthai, Royal Blood, Becky Hill, Blondie and plenty more too.
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