Way back in early 2004, while I was part of the morning crew on Brooksy’s Rude Awakening, I was set a challenge.
This challenge was to prove a theory that you could easily pull girls if you spoke to them through a hand puppet. The challenge was to buy a hand puppet, and head down to Juice’s regular haunt, Creation in West Street.
Together with Non Stop Jay and Juicy Crew Nikki, I headed to Toys R Us in Hove to seek a suitable puppet. We found a (cheap) white sheep hand puppet.
Then, listeners were given the chance to name the puppet. There were lots of suggestions (as the breakfast show had lots of listeners in those days…) including Mint Sauce, Dave etc. Eventually, the name Lolly was chosen.
Lolly The Puppet Pulling Sheep was born. She even had her own knitted jumper with the Juice logo on the front and her name on the back.
The experiment was a failure, the girls wanted their photo taken with Lolly. Some even just wanted to stick their hands up her “glove”.
Lolly lives on though. She’s still around and now lives with me.
