The
Telegraph [UK]
10 May
2019
Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster: inside the story that
started a fake news revolution
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.” 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 Sun, 13 March
1986
The Scottish Sun, 10 May
2019
Another
Freddie Starr ingestion story:
The Mirror [UK]
10 June 2007
FREDDIE STARR DRANK DICK
EMERY'S ASHES
FREDDIE
Starr trumped his infamous hamster-eating antics - by DRINKING comedy legend
Dick Emery. Madcap Starr quaffed the telly idol's ASHES in a cup of coffee. The
bizarre brew came as Starr visited Fay Hillier, who was having a fling with the
You Are Awful funnyman at the time of his death. Showgirl Fay kept some of
Emery's ashes in a Nescafe jar - but forgot to tell Starr when he made a drink.
A friend told The People: "It was a genuine mistake. But when he realised,
Freddie made a huge guffaw and said, 'Ooh, I am awful'. […]
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