Has Double Take stumbled on Geelong’s answer to Kim Kardashian – but with feathers?
Or perhaps “stumbled on” should be “fallen into the marketing web of” given this week’s correspondence on Flapper, Ocean Grove’s celebrity chicken.
Readers will remember encountering Flapper a couple of weeks ago. The charming chook was presented as a poultry poultice to sooth raw emotions after January’s big chicken truck disaster.
Flapper, we learned, was regularly seen about the coast in all manner of activity, from hanging out at local cafes to modelling custom Cats apparel and even swimming at the beach. What a bird!
Well, the coverage was certainly welcomed by Flapper’s “manager”, Ocean Grove local Elaine Janes.
“Thank you”, Elaine wrote to the Indy this week, detailing the “many calls and comments” she received in response to the publicity.
With her note Elaine also included Flapper marketing material that betrayed the full extent of her commercial pre-eminence in the local celebrity chicken sector.
Flapper was a “supermodel chook”, separate colour flyers proclaimed, who “loves events and social media challenges.”
Even included were a Flapper business card and directions to “my adventures on Instagram”.
Wow! Makes Darryn Lyons appear shy and retiring in comparison.
Anyway, Double Take’s just happy to ride the wake of Flapper’s public profile – long may she ruffle feathers!
Also making headway in the celebrity stakes is Point Lonsdale’s Geelong’s Nicholas Gerardi, although in a very different environment than Flapper’s coastal coop.
Nicholas, AKA Ivana Kabab, won Best Costume at last weekend’s Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual Australia International, held in St Kilda Town Hall.
The title was a welcome result for Nicholas, or Ivana, who still would have been disappointed to miss out on the ultimate prize as just one competitor in a field from around Australia and overseas.
“It gets bitchy,” Ivana told the Indy before the competition.
“Everyone’s after the crown because it’s so sparkly.”
But it wasn’t all about the crown. Ivana was also competing to raise money for charities Hair With Heart and GASP, the former assisting disadvantaged children and the latter supporting young LGBTI people.
Well done, Ivana – and Nicholas!
Meanwhile, a pair of local sports celebrities had somewhat less successful promotion than Flapper or Ivana this week.
Thanks to the sometimes conflicting presentation of online news services, Scott and Joel Selwood appeared to be unrelated women of opposite hues.
The problem is that the brothers were named in a caption about them training at Waurn Ponds – but the accompanying picture was apparently replaced with an image from a video of a female reporter interviewing a women’s footy player.
Readers would have been surprised at how long Scott’s blonde hair had grown – and shocked at Joel’s long, dark dreadlocks.
Footy fans know that a tough pre-season can be transformative but this is ridiculous!
