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BBC News
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Hull's Lewis Aylmer wins at World Beard and Moustache Championships
A man who was once mocked for his facial hair has claimed victory at the World Beard and Moustache Aylmer, from Hull, attended the competition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and placed first in the Under 15cm Full Beard with Styled Moustache now 33-year-old was 12 when he first started growing facial hair and had a 4.5in (11.4cm) goatee by 17."When I was in school, I used to get called all sorts of names. It got bad with the bullying, we'd get in to fights," he said. Mr Aylmer grew back a beard and moustache after leaving the army reserves, where he sometimes had to shave twice a "snowballed" three years later when he heard about competitive bearding and he went on to place third at the 2016 British Beard and Moustache Championships before winning national titles in 2018 and 2024. More than 400 competitors took part in the 2025 World Championships between 3 and 5 July. Mr Aylmer explained that judges were looking for a handlebar-style moustache with big curls and perfect used three different waxes to keep his moustache in place for an entire day, along with oils to maintain the health of his year, he'll be defending his British title and is looking ahead to the 2027 World Beard and Moustache Championships in Blackpool."People stop me in the street for photos," Mr Aylmer said. "I'm so used to it now because I've had it over 10 years, it's just become part of me." Mr Aylmer said his championship wins had helped him deal with anxiety."I feel like it's actually helped me get a bit more confidence in myself," he said. "Going up on stage, talking to people and meeting new people - they've helped me... which has been a fantastic thing."He described everyone in the competition community as "always so friendly and welcoming"."When you're there, you just feel like you're long lost friends," he added. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or Google Play for Android devices
Daily Mail
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Good Morning Britain star leaves viewers divided with striking new look - as they gasp ‘not sure about that!' just minutes into TV return
A Good Morning Britain star has left viewers divided after their debuted a brand new look on Thursday morning. Fans tuned into the ITV daytime show for the latest news as Kate Garraway and Ed Balls anchored the programme. TV host and DJ Melvin Odoom was standing in for Richard Arnold to bring viewers the latest entertainment news. Kate, 58, and Ed, 58, brought the latest on the newly announced 10-year plan for the NHS which will be officially announced today. The pair then brought in Good Morning Britain's resident doctor Amir Khan for his reaction to the news. Dr Khan was calling in remotely while at his GP surgery in West Yorkshire. Dr Amir Khan dialed into the daytime show sporting a thick moustache, leaving fans stunned as they flooded social media with their reactions However, fans at home were left distracted as the medical professional debuted his new look. He dialed into the programme sporting a thick moustache, a big switch-up from his usual clean shaven look. Fans flooded social media with their reactions to his new look, as one joked: 'Check out Dr Amir with his moustache.' A second commented: 'What is with this obsession with moustaches atm? They're everywhere #gmb.' 'Who trimmed that moustache' asked another fan, alongside a screaming emoji. While a fourth posted: 'Has Dr Amir always had that 70's Studio 54 moustache or have I only just noticed it.' A fifth joked: 'Freddie Mercury on #lorraine posing as a Doctor!' 'Not sure about the tashe lol,' said a sixth viewer. Meanwhile, a forgotten Good Morning Britain presenter replaced the usual host and fans called for the anchor to be a 'permanent fixture on the show'. Wednesday's instalment of the daily ITV programme saw co-hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls cover the top stories. The weather forecast is typically covered by Laura Tobin, who has presented the segment since the show launched in 2014. But Wednesday's bulletin featured a different face - Des Coleman, who usually covers ITV Central in the Midlands. The weather presenter reported that the scorching heatwave is now over and heavy showers are expected across the country. Aside from covering the forecast, Des is an actor too and has appeared in a range of shows including EastEnders and Casualty. Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV1 from 6am and is available to stream on ITVX.
CBS News
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Pittsburgh to host 2025 World Beard and Moustache Championships
Pittsburgh will soon play host to one of the fiercest facial hair showdowns in the world. The city will welcome the 2025 World Beard and Moustache Championships from July 3 to 5 at Heinz Hall. Presented in conjunction with the Mad Viking Beard Club Pennsylvania and the World Beard and Moustache Association, the event will bring together the world's top beard and moustache competitors to showcase fascinating facial hair across 37 categories, including six unique craft categories that highlight creativity and craftsmanship, according to an accompanying press release. Other approved categories include moustache, partial beard and full beard. Each category is divided into several different classes. Competitors may only compete in one category. In addition to after-parties and other live entertainment, the festivities begin with competitors and supporters uniting under their country's flag to parade from Mellon Square to Heinz Hall on Thursday morning. The staging will begin at 8:30 a.m., with the parade departing around 9:00 a.m. All proceeds from the championships will benefit the UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation. More information, including ticket information, can be found here.
Daily Mail
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Australia's moustachioed maverick NIC WHITE takes Mail Sport to the barbers and talks Peaky Blinders, the Lions tour and his love of Exeter
Nic White springs out of the barber's chair, moustache freshly groomed like a Victorian strongman. 'You're up next!' he barks at me, pointing towards the red leather seat. Shaking off any loose hairs, the 5ft 9in scrum-half gives a few instructions to the stylist. 'Let's get a slug on his face!'
The Guardian
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Few men can really rock a moustache. Timothée Chalamet is not one of them
What is it with all these wispy moustaches suddenly decorating young men's faces? These things, which have crawled their way on to so many upper lips, aren't fully formed moustaches. There's no depth to them. They're straggly, patchy, with skin showing through them. They look as though their owners aren't fully committed to them. Or, worse, that they are trying their best, but this apology of a moustache is all they can manage. It's the kind of moustache you grow when puberty first makes it possible to do so, the debut facial hair with which you aim to convince publicans that you're old enough to be served alcohol. The only thing I can say in their favour is that they are at least equal opportunity moustaches, in that even those who can't muster much in the way of facial hair can have a fair crack at producing one of these. But otherwise, my firm view on moustaches, for the infinitesimally little it's worth, is to go big or go home. I'm working on a documentary about Sir Edward Elgar. Now that's what I call a moustache. Full, bushy, yet neat. A veritable symphony of bristle. It may be that spending so much time with Sir Edward lately is what led me to suddenly start seeing these miserable creepy-crawlies sullying faces everywhere. Initially, I felt a bit sorry for their owners. I took it they were doing it for a charity thing and, even though they plainly looked crap, were sticking with it in aid of a good cause. Respect. But I checked my calendar, and it turns out we're in the month of June, not Movember. Could it be, could it really be, that they think these things look good? It would seem to be so. I sought confirmation that this rubbishy apology of a moustache has been confirmed as an actual trend. And, if so, who started it, when and why? I asked everyone I know who is trendier and more trend-aware than I am, which is almost everyone I know. So I narrowed the cohort down to various dandies of my acquaintance, my daughters, their friends, and anyone I got within range of who happened to be in their late teens or 20s. A consensus soon emerged that the sporting of these awful 'taches is indeed a thing. But getting to the root cause of this troubling trend is quite the challenge. No sooner do you think you've got there than someone pops up insisting it goes back a lot further than that. I was sent a piece from the Cut, part of New York magazine, describing it thus: 'It's petite, it's well-groomed, and like its wearer, it's decidedly queer: the skinny mustache.' Pardoning the American spelling there, I read on with interest. It was good to know I was on to something with writers as on-trend as this. Then I checked the date: 2019. I'm just six years behind the curve, then – quite good for me. And one thing's for sure: this trend is now close to its end. Because if a trend has become entrenched enough for my dopey ungroomed self to notice it, then it has surely peaked and the end is nigh. For example, when I was at school there was a phase when all the other boys, as if by some agreement made behind my back, started wearing shoes called Pods. But my mum had just bought me some other new school shoes and wouldn't hear a word about this Pods business. I kept on at her, but by the time I'd begged her to buy me some, everyone else – again by some secret agreement, apparently – had ditched their Pods and moved on. And I got laughed at for wearing them. There you go, confessions of a failed dandy. Anyway, this piece out of New York reports a Brooklyn barber saying of this 'mustache' that 'its two most crucial descriptors are subtle and understated'. Obviously, having applied other adjectives, I snorted at this, but reading on I started worrying I was getting into some culturally sensitive areas. A point is made about it all being a legacy of the 1960s, when lip fuzz was seen as a form of rebellion against authority, particularly military masculinity. And this new wispy 2019 version is said to have a 'whiff of deviancy' about it. I don't doubt it for a moment but, six years on, if every other young dude on the tube is wearing one, the deviancy has surely been diluted. So what we're seeing now is probably a revival of something from six years ago that was itself a revival of something significant that started 60 years ago. Fascinating. But I'm sorry, I still think they look crap. It was a photograph of Benson Boone, the American singer, that started me on all this. It seems you can draw a direct line back from him, via Paul Mescal and Harry Styles, to Timothée Chalamet, upon whose face one of these aberrations appeared last year. Interestingly, if you think about it, that acute accent in Timothée's name might be said to resemble one half of his trendsetting 'tache. Anyway, I'm indebted to one of my Guardian colleagues for sharing with me an article about it from Vogue – not a publication I generally read. It says that Chalamet's wispy whiskers are 'not so much a symbol of masculine gruff as a free agent coming of age'. I've no idea what that means but it sounds about right, even though I've a better theory: noting that Styles, Mescal and Boone all followed where Timothée led, it struck me that what these chaps have in common is the feverish sexual desire they excite in millions of people. This must get a bit tedious after a while, so I wonder if they're wearing these terrible 'taches to try to make themselves less attractive? A clever move, gentlemen, if I may say so, though it doesn't seem to have worked. The whole world's still hot for the lot of you. And boys everywhere, poor deluded souls, thinking your magic resides in your bumfluff, are now all at it. This must stop. They look awful. Fellas, either grow a proper one. Or get rid. Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.
