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She/Her. Queer. Immigrant. Londoner. Program Manager by day, at the theatre all other times! Co-creator @sirens_musical Volunteer @swkplay #mincefluencer

London, England
Joined March 2010
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So many freaking jukeboxes in the west end and you close @ComeFromAwayUK ??? Why is the world like this?
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What a day. Have I got a story (thread) for you, Twitter… This really is one of those (to quote @mincemeatlive ): you really couldn’t write it days. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that this actually happened.
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@surlybassey Love the normies being "don't be a dick, just move." I have severe flight anxiety and am claustrophobic. I specifically pay more to book aisle seats so I can reduce my discomfort a little bit. No. I will not move. And you just made my anxiety explode by asking.
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@trishling @RyanBastek @profmusgrave Seriously, thanks for pointing this out. Some people don’t think about cases where people literally can’t just quit their job. US immigration is a nightmare for everyone and it can take 5-15 years to be able to get a green card on a work visa. If you get one at all.
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FaceTiming with my Senior Puppers. Some days she ignores me. Others she gives me disapproving looks like this for being so far away. But it’s all with doggo love! 13/10 would fly home just to see her. #seniorpupsaturday @dog_rates
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Val
10 months
Two years ago I dragged my seasonally depressed body out of the house and into my local theatre to see a tiny show all by myself. Today I’m going with over 200 people to the West End to celebrate it. Theatre changes lives🫶 #OperationHumanThermos 🏠🥸🌡️
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@Altronage @Joe_Best We’ve all been there.
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3 months
Went for a lovely day in Brighton with bestie but we had to run back to the train station because all shops were shutting down, there was police everywhere and they were boarding up shop windows because they’re expecting riots. Fuck these racist terrorists.
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@AITA_reddit Breaking: Man gets a taste of how women feel on a regular basis. Doesn't like it.
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And I thought this was gonna be the most exciting thing happening today. I WILL still make a fuss though! 🇬🇧
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10 months
The Fan(dom) really said I’m making an appearance tonight. To the best and most well behaved theatre community, thank you for being such an amazing bunch. We did it! #OperationHumanThermos 🥸🌡️
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7 months
OPERATION FUCKING MINCEMEAT BEST NEW FUCKING MUSICAL EVERYONE I’VE TELLING TO GO SEE IT FOR YEARS: I KNEW I WAS RIGHT BUT NOW I HAVE PROOF!!!!!
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6 months
I think @sophmessage took my fav pic ever 🥹💜
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Happy to report #OperationInterestingMan was a success! Thank you @spitlip for the gift of @mincemeatlive and welcoming us with open arms. To @FortuneTheatre1 and especially to every single #mincefluencer who came and was above all respectful of cast, crew and each other💛🥸🫡
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This is Dot. She is 13 and can barely see, but she still loves chasing after feet to save them from those evil socks! #SeniorPupSaturday @dog_rates
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@CatioroReflexiv Um cachorro mais alto fez xixi na cabeça dele e nós lavamos. Ele ficou chocado
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Val
7 months
We’re all here! #OperationGlitzy 🥸✨
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7 months
The #OperationGreenLight 🥸🚦content keeps coming 👀 CC: @letterstojuly We’re Mincefluencers, of course we…
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@MelissaPonzio1 Welcome to the (Glen Capri) Hotel California?
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Nearly missed my train because there was a @mincemeatlive taxi parked immediately outside my office with @NatashaHodgson on it and I had to stop to take photos. The driver was very amused #OperationMinceTaxi
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Sent from my IPhone. 😁
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Happy Birthday @WICKED_Musical #Wicked15 ! 15 years later and we all need to embrace our inner Elphabas more than ever and Defy Gravity and never let them bring us down! 💜💚 @WickedUK #resist #defy
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7 months
JAK FUCKING MALONE OLIVIER AWARD WINNER ACTOR
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3 months
How many mincefluencers had other plans for tonight and ended up at the fortune anyway? The answer is, of course: never. mind. ✨
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7 months
Mincefluencers have infiltrated (one of) the most secure building in England to leave a birthday card on my desk and I couldn’t be prouder 🥹🥹🥹💜 Thank you all for being such a wonderful community 🫶✨
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Every time I see an ad for Cinderella I get angry that that uninspired, unoriginal show has a ton of money, is transferring to Broadway and meanwhile pure brilliance @mincemeatlive is sold out every night without a West End transfer or a cast recording.
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7 months
Finally greatness being recognized. #OperationGreenLight 🥸🚦
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6 months
I have a lot of feelings about everything that happened in the past week but right now all I can think of is: last night we had the first SpitLip-less show in history and look at the legacy those wonderful idiots built. 🥹 They will talk about Operation Mincemeat for years 💜✨
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9 months
Mincefluencers. Mincemeat. Best Musical. Awesome night. 🫶
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So you dreamt of being
@elenasdecker
olivia
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what are the FIRST five words of the national anthem
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9 months
So with the murder mystery jokes about that fabulous What’s On Stage photo of the mince cast, this idea wouldn’t leave my brain until I did it. So let me present you your suspects. The crime and who is guilty? You decide. Alternatively: casting for S3 of Traitors.
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Can’t give these amazing people a big congratulatory hug right now so this will have to do 💜💜💜💜💜 Silly to once again be so emotional and so proud, but look at this: @mincemeatbway !!!! How could I not? 🥹
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6 months
Mom is in front of the yellow curtain! 🥹✨
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7 months
BEST FUCKING MUSICAL OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL
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THEY WERE BORN TO LEAD #OlivierAwards
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@EnergizerNYC @RyanMTute What about Bunnies in the Bakerloo line?
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5 months
Mincefluencers at a very different venue for @mincemeatlive this morning!
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7 months
... Did anyone else see this?!!! #Bob4Bond 🚀💼
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When you start a community on Twitter because you’re obsessed with a show and your friends can’t stand to hear you talk about it anymore and then suddenly you’re featured @WhatsOnStage 🥸🫡 #OperationInterestingMan
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Last night 80 Operation Mincemeat fans watched the show dressed up as characters as part of #OperationInterestingMan ! Making up almost a quarter of the audience at the Fortune Theatre, they represented each of the 32 characters. Find out more:
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Little yellow show continues to blow my mind. For the longest time there were 52 of us in the Twitter community and now…
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7 months
We’re ready! #OperationGlitzy 🥸✨ is a go!
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9 months
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Alright @mincemeatlive I’m gonna need you all to become ridiculously famous and/or get involved in some kind of scandal in a few years because considering the amount of money I’m spending on tickets, this is gonna be the closest I’ll get to a retirement plan
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3 months
Being a mincefluencer is definitely a hobby that should be covered by insurance. You may, at any point, get hit with: spit. A wedding ring. A plank. And as of tonight a wholeass clipboard.
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10 months
This job comes with a very supportive (if mildly unhinged) community!
@pearsoncasting
Pearson Casting CDG CDA CSA 🎭 🩰 🎥
10 months
💼 OPEN AUDITIONS - OPERATION MINCEMEAT 💼 🔍
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@wbtourlondon Walking into The Great Hall was already a magical experience. But the decorations made it even more special. ❤️🎄🦁❄️
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7 months
Between #OperationGlitzy 🥸✨ and #OperationGreenLight 🥸🚦 it’s been an extremely busy time for these agents. Time to pause and let sink in all the amazing moments we shared these past few days. Thanks to the silly little (Olivier Award Winning) yellow show and each other. 🫡💛
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The lady behind me in the queue for the toilet asked me why I keep coming back and it’s this. All of this. The community, all 9 cast members, this amazing show and above all just how genuinely NICE people are and everyone plays everyone else up on and off stage. It’s good stuff
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1 year
An INCREDIBLE night for @mincemeatlive bingo- gaze upon your winners!!!!!
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7 months
Hard to face Monday when I got to spend the Sunday running around London with @annierosebel15 @Clogs_H @rcrossgve @sophmessage (and not on Twitter Sarah) jumping around and being silly. Anyway, we have our orders 💛
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7 months
So happy to finally share Operation Mincemeat's new cast! @Clogs_H @annierosebel15 @rcrossgve @sophmessage
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10 months
There are 15 reasons why a very specific group of unhinged geniuses should be alarmed for the next 7 days. This is absolutely one of them. #OperationHumanThermos 🥸🌡️
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Well #Mincefluencers are just insane. Over 100 tickets sold in less than 12 hours for our next Operation. Hope y’all are ready @spitlip @mincemeatlive 👀🥸
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9 months
Proper post now that I'm not rushing out of the theatre! Holly won for Best Understudy @JakMalonee won for Rising Star and while @NatashaHodgson didn't the award for Best West End performer, we know she is one of 9, so And finally @mincemeatlive won for Best Musical!
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Wholesome moment of the evening: I’m finally taking my mom to Mince tomorrow but her English isn’t great and her friend who is coming along doesn’t speak much at all. So they’re studying the lyrics to have an idea of what the songs say.
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5 months
Mean Girls first preview interval thoughts: OMFG TINA FEY IS THREE ROWS FROM ME! Also this show is soooo good!!!! 👍 be been obsessed with the soundtrack for ages but seeing the whole thing is so much better than I could have pictured in my head. OBSESSED.
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10 months
There are about 15 types of animals that can handle the low temperatures of the next seven days. Let's hope Magnificently Deranged Fools are one of them. #OperationHumanThermos 🥸🌡️
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7 months
So silly. So proud. So grateful. “When you’re in a theatre you’re never alone” was the truest quote of the night. Mincefluencers are the best and Mincemeat is (officially) the best. I can’t put into worst just how much joy this show has brought me.
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feels a bit silly i didn't know any of these people a year ago, forever grateful for our silly OLIVIER WINNING MUSICAL !!!!!! and these SILLY SILLY WONDERFUL FRIENDS 🫶
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ATTENTION AGENTS! #OperationGlitzy 🥸✨ was a success. #OperationGreenLight 🥸🚦 is a go!!!
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Best @WickedUK performance I’ve ever seen. Thank you @alice_fearn and @SophieEvans ! Best of luck in wherever you go next!
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6 months
Absolutely exhausted both emotionally and physically. But with my heart full of great memories of wonderful people. What a special day 💜🥹✨
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9 months
It’s been the most excellent week of art for me. @HadestownUK is the cherry on top, the UK cast is phenomenal!
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8 months
Silly to be so massively happy and proud of all these people and this silly little show but here we are. 🥹🫶✨
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11 months
Although I am sad not to be there I’m just seeing all these posts and pics and videos and I’m so proud of everyone in it and I just 🥹🥹🥹🥹 this show. This community. It’s just special 💛
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11 months
A short snippet of today’s @mincemeatlive Hester Plaque Unveiling. Incredible, and very emotional speeches including by @Greg_Callus who reveals the plaque with @patientgrissel . Full speech to come…
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6 months
Turning right instead of left was very difficult. But I did it.
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7 months
Father has not, in fact, ever been prouder ✨
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7 months
The faces of a group of people who just heard [REDACTED] from the new musical Operation Mincemeat as played by the bbc concert orchestra. Will never forget that as long as we live. Bring on Sunday. You are not ready. @OlivierAwards @mincemeatlive
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Anyway here is what the cast of OPERATION MINCEMEAT WEST END MUSICAL look like #FindingHester
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WELCOME TO LONDON! It’s the future but this is the only hat I got! Oi! #OperationInterestingMan is the gift that keeps on giving, thank you @Clogs_H for fab pics!
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In the recent years the best shows I’ve seen are New British Musicals I saw @swkplay . Obviously my beloved @mincemeatlive is going to Bway. Hopefully @Ride_Musical will be back. And now @TCCOBBmusical has opened in the West End and what a gift to theatre it is 💜 go see it!
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6 months
Part two of #OperationUpAsOne is a go! We have our orders 🫡 🐥 🐒 🍬 🦎 💃🏻
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I still have no idea how a #mincefluencer meet up ended up on the schedule for @MusicalConUK but I’m glad it did because now we have this lovely photo thanks to @EEdwardsWrites ! 💛
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Is this the first sign of the @mincemeatlive megazord where they just become an ensemble cast of 9???
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6 months
Crappy mental health day? Overly stressed? Work being a pain in the ass? Anxiety crisis? The perfect cure: last minute tickets for a new bingo combo at the yellow show with a bunch of familiar faces 💛
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Happy Holiday Monday to those who celebrate it! It's going to be a *ahem* Very Interesting Week #OperationInterestingMan 🏘️🥸
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4 months
Pride @frozenlondon was such a nice wholesome experience and seeing Samantha as Elsa saying Happy Pride while wearing a pride flag as a cape healed me. Happy Pride indeed! 💜🌈✨❄️
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@PsycheMax @EnergizerNYC @RyanMTute I can confirm there are already nearthentals during my commute on the Northern Line. Would prefer Narwhals.
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Just to confirm the bingo square for tonight #mincefluencers
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@JackMLawrence It’s a very rare square day for sure- THERE WILL BE ENVY
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Happy 7(!) year Londonversary to me! Moved here with two suitcases, no job and not knowing a single person. Can’t believe how much has happened, how much I’ve changed, how many amazing people I’ve met since 🥹💜 and that I get to call London home, 16 yo Val’s mind would be blown
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The truth is, there are no straight people. There are just people who have seen @NatashaHodgson 's Monty and people who haven't.
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Before I took my chap to @mincemeatlive I explained how Natasha-As-Monty had triggered a sexuality crisis for me. After the show (which he loved) he said “Well, I’m not having a crisis. Monty was just plain hot.” 😍
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Amongst all the chaos I just want to thank @DaveyCumming for making Monty/Charlie queerness canon last night. And @JakMalonee for playing that the hell up while corpsing.
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Val
7 months
Can we please stop overly relying on cameras and huge screens on stage in theatres? PLEASE. Some of it is fine if it adds to the experience but I don’t go into a theatre (and pay theatre prices) to watch a screen. No matter how brilliant the performances are.
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What a privilege to have been able to witness another historical show in the life of @mincemeatlive 🥹 First second cover to go on and @GeriAllenActor was phenomenal. the amount of talent between the nine of them os really just unfair.
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A Flamboyant of Lady Assassins gathers in the Florida humidity. You can take me away from @mincemeatlive but I still won’t shut up about it.
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Last mince of the year and this is how much fun the Q&A was! And it was such a sharp show too!
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6 months
How do I tell my friends and family I will not be able to respond to messages and calls until Tuesday due to lack of emotional capacity? #OperationUpAsOne 🥸🫡
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Val
9 months
Not sure when this happened but we have surpassed 700 in the #mincefluencer discord server 😳 As Monty would say: that’s too many. But you’re welcome to join us here if you wish!
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6 months
That’s too many… ✨
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The plan is set in motion. The wheels are turning. History is in the making. - --- -. .. --. .... - / ..-. --- .-. - ..- -. . / .. ... / --- ..- .-. ... #OperationInterestingMan 🏠🥸
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7 months
Update: I did not need the ferrero rocher knowledge after all! Now to spend the weekend with lots of mince and friends to celebrate! 🥹✨
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7 months
@NatashaHodgson I fear I will not pass my citizenship test now 😭 I don’t understand.
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8 months
You know you’re surrounded by theatre people when two phenomenons happen around 7/7:30 every day: - Your group chats go very quiet - Your timelines are full of pics of programs+stages
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I have so many feelings and thoughts. I’ve run a lot of communities before but none as full of shining examples of what humans can be as this. I can’t believe how lucky we are to have found this show, these creatives, cast and each other. Thank you to every single one of you. 💜
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When you miss musical theatre so much you create a place for it in Animal Crossing Dream code I’d anyone wants to see it: DA-4040-5707-6774 #ACNHDesigns #AnimalCrossing #AllStarMusicals @WickedUK @frozenlondon @HeathersMusical @HamiltonWestEnd
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Damn for my usual engagement of one-two likes per tweet on a good day, this is exploding. Follow @sirens_musical for more stories of women getting back what belongs to them maybe? 🦸‍♀️
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Just a normal day in the life of a Mincefluencer Thanks @OverturesLDN for letting us sneak in ✨
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I can’t thank this lady enough. I still can’t believe this happened. So I give her my testimony, get my phone back and go buy my friends some dinner because this was some Scooby Gang work today man.
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Val
2 months
Unexpected celebration 🎉 🇬🇧 🚀 🤡 🦥
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Val
6 months
@Will_So What the hell, Will? 😂 Did you even notice at the time?
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The things I do for this fandom! (Putting up with Harry mainly)
@HarryBower_
Harry Bower
1 year
Not @thevalmarques stood at the front of the stalls handing out #mincefluencer goodies like some kind of pin badge Jesus 😂💛
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