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Shane Richie's "World Would Be Complete" if Sleaford Mods Performed on Children In Need

Maybe Alfie Moon off of Eastenders is right. This is what the Children really do Need.
Emma Garland
London, GB

In today's episode of British Celebrities (That Are Sort Of Celebrities But Most People Would Probably Have To Google If They Appeared On I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!) Like The Weirdest Things, it turns out actor Shane Richie is a massive fan of Sleaford Mods.

Taking to Twitter last night, Shane Richie (who is most famous for playing Alfie Moon, the cheeky but quietly self-destructive lad who is basically the half way point between Jeremy Clarkson and Dylan Thomas and trapped in an eternal on/off relationship with Kat "YES I AM (YOUR MUVVA)" Slater, off of Eastenders) proclaimed that his "world would be complete" if Sleaford Mods played Children In Need this year. And you know he's being serious because he punctuated it with a devil emoji and everything.

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My world would be complete @sleafordmods on @BBCCiN

— Shane Richie (@realshanerichie) November 2, 2015

Putting aside the award-winning image of Alfie Moon and Kat Slater moshing at a Sleaford Mods gig, let's take a minute to imagine this is actually happening, shall we?

Known primarily for political activism and profuse swearing, like a two-man, much more socially aware Super Hans, Sleaford Mods are Ofcom's worst nightmare. They'd probably show up drunk and bosh through ten seconds of "Tied Up In Nottz" before the BBC pull the plug and screen emergency footage of Russell Howard regurgitating a joke he saw on YouTube where someone called Pudsey a cunt.

Then again, conservative cuts to tax credits and other benefits are set to push another 200,000 children into poverty next year, so maybe Sleaford Mods - one of the few British bands actively fighting against shit jobs, poverty, and Noel Gallagher's Twitter feed - is exactly what the Children really do Need, rather than a series of Peter Kay's comedy medleys bookended by novelty episodes of Countryfile and Strictly Come Dancing.

The Mods replied saying they were "shouting at Gary Barlow", so fingers crossed.

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