This bakery had the very best response to a PR’s offer to pay for their celebrity with exposure
This isn’t the first time we’ve featured a business’s totally on-point response to someone offering to pay them with ‘exposure’ but it might be one of the very best.
It’s the Three Little Birds bakery in Yorkshire which was moved to post on Facebook this PR firm’s request on behalf of their celebrity client and it’s quite the read.
It went wildly viral after it was shared by the always followable @simonharris_mbd on Twitter.
‘Unfortunately as my mortgage provider doesn’t take payment “in the form of promotion on their socials”, and my staff can’t feed their kids with exposure on Instagram, I’ll have to decline your very generous offer. Those are my thoughts.’
Well done Three Little Birds Bakery in… pic.twitter.com/jsW4PCFWMG
— Simon Harris – Man Behaving Dadly (THAT’S DADLY) (@simonharris_mbd) August 1, 2023
And because that’s tricky to read in full, here is the request …
And here is the bakery’s magnificent – magnificent! – response.
Oven roasted.
And it’s pretty much the only thing anyone was talking about – well, we exaggerate only a little bit.
Love that Three Little Birds Bakery is currently getting more publicity & good PR from politely telling these dicks to go fuck themselves than they'd ever have got from the gig. https://t.co/biOqhODPqU
— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) August 2, 2023
Inject this into my veins… https://t.co/thmo9CT4AU
— Beard Meats Food (@beardmeatsfood) August 2, 2023
An amazing response by Three little birds bakery Keighley to this request for freebies in return for ‘exposure.’
I’m certain the ‘well known celeb’ could foot the bill herself?! #supportsmallbusiness pic.twitter.com/sjjZVOATs7— Bex ×͜× "Embrace the glorious mess that you are." (@Obv_Bex) August 2, 2023
Be more like "Three little birds bakery" https://t.co/Wqj5NCMU1e
— FMaría (@f_gslow) August 2, 2023
It later turned out the celebrity was Catherine Tyldesley, the – Google, Google – Coronation Street star who also appeared on Strictly Come Dancing.
At the risk of far too much information – apologies in advance – but in the interests of balance and all that, here’s what she had to say about it later on Instagram.
Crumbs!
And just in case you want to put in an order or pay them a visit …
Support the bakery! https://t.co/f6KcVjspv0
— Frances Watt (@franceslucywatt) August 2, 2023
Source Twitter @simonharris_mbd Image Unsplash Daria Volkova