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April 19, 2011

Kate Middleton jelly bean follow-up prompts amusing Independent prank url

By Duncan wirepost

Newsdesk demands for every more stories about Kate Middleton and the Royal Wedding may be pushing hacks to breaking point.

As evidence, I cite this piece from The Independent from Monday about a jellybean resembling Kate Middleton which is being sold on ebay.

Check out the url, which presumably was penned by whichever online news functionary was tasked with following up the story from the Telegraph in pursuit of a cheap traffic boost:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/utter-PR-fiction-but-people-love-this-shit-so-fuck-it-lets-just-print-it-2269573.html

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