The Dollywood Times

OK, so a young Brad Pitt – but do you think he looks like him? Actually we don’t think he is as good looking as Brad, but he could pass as a substitute. Why not hire him and sit him down to dinner with yourself? Set your camera on the self timing mode and post it on Facebook – tell the world how you had dinner with Brad. Well, OK, we are getting a bit silly now but it is Friday and it is almost time to go home. Let us know what you think! Nice weekend. x

One of the most successful artists to emerge from The X Factor, Niki has taken the West End by storm winning awards as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, and been personally invited to join the tours of our friend John Barrowman and Jasper Carrott.  This will be Niki’s first UK tour as she presents the songs she loves and wants to share. Recognised as one of the best voices to have featured on The X Factor throughout its history, Niki is a true live performer not to be missed.

Niki’s opening show at the Garrick Theatre is pictured here with 4 of our Selfridges 8 as backing singers, wearing dresses that appeared on the X Factor.

Being asked to provide mannequins for music video shoots is one of our specialities and we are really proud to add the fabulous MIKA to our growing list of celebrity clients. Roz had a wonderful hard working day at Wilton’s Music Hall in E1 – the most beautiful music hall you have ever seen. Well worth a visit. www.wiltons.org.uk. The mannequins behaved themselves too, which was a bonus although one did refuse to have his trousers put on. We do believe that some of the crew have photographic evidence of Roz struggling on the cat walk with him. Let us know so we can have a caption competition!

All of us here at Mannakin wish MIKA every success in the world with the new album. Roz’s favourite track? I see you!

The shoot was featured twice on Channel 4’s T4 on Saturday 29 August 2009. It is available for 30 days on 4 on Demand. Click here to view on the web.

Undoubtedly the most talented artist at this years Glastonbury Festival was Lady Gaga. How honoured we were to see her appear live on stage with our mannequins.

We are back after a successful trip with the mannequins to Glastonbury Festival. Not only did they stand on stage for the duration, they also appeared with Lady Gaga – when she did her secret gig at Club Dada, Shangri La. We were delighted as she announced how much she enjoyed performing with the mannequins. Kelvin Clone even had his privates fondled by her! (He is now charging double his usual hire fee!) Some pre photos here, with more to follow shortly.

2 of our most famous male mannequins recently took part in the Only Fools and Horses Convention in Maidstone organised by OnlyFools.Net. The mannequins were dressed up in those famous Batman and Robin costumes that Del Boy (Sir David Jason) and Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lindhurst) wore in one of the episodes of Britains most popular sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. Can you guess which mannequins were used?! Thanks to Perry for hiring out the mannequins and sending these pictures to us!

And do you recognise this guy? He was on the X Factor doing the dodgy MJ impression – David.

We can all stop guessing now as to who it is behind the crash helmet. The Stig, who appeared at a recent conference with Integra Office Solutions, pictured here with Meryl James is none other than our Harvey!