Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster: inside the story that started a fake news revolution

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One of the best known tabloid newspaper headlines of all time, the Freddie Starr-hamster story remains lodged in the public’s consciousness over three decades later

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations contains one entry under the word ‘hamster’. Nestling among the poetry of Keats, the couplets of Shakespeare and the wit of Johnson, it sticks out like a sore thumb. The entry reads: “‘Freddie Starr ate my hamster’ headline in Sun 13 March 1986.”

 

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Was he a comic genius !!.....yeah probably. .!!.but how will we remember him?.

The other story we all remember is the double-decker bus discovered on the moon

Shame they didn’t give the courtesy back... That’s the sun..

R.I.P. Freddie. 😕

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