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Brett Gibbons

McDonald's gigs help fast-food worker become celebrity with restaurant customers

A McDonald's worker has become a celebrity among customers - by regularly bursting into song during shifts. Richard Walker, 31, first sang at the fast food restaurant five years ago and found that fans returned to ask about his next show.

The restaurant manager then offered him a permanent slot at the London Liverpool Street branch, and now he regularly belts out his tunes from behind the counter. Richard, from Streatham, said: “I sing almost every night. Sometimes just a few songs, sometimes I can go all night long - just call me Lionel Richie Walker.

“Performing is hard work but when I see surprised and happy people dancing, singing, and taking their phones out to film while they wait, I'm humbled. I never thought anybody would ever enjoy anything I did quite like this.”

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