Topics: Food and Drink, UK News
A Bradford bakery is being praised for its response to a ‘well-known celebrity’ offering ‘exposure’ in return for free cakes.
The Three Little Birds Bakery in Keighley put up a Facebook post on 27 July, which included screenshots of a convo with the PR firm of an unknown celeb.
"This poor celebrity apparently can't afford to pay people for their products and services," the sarcastic caption read.
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"Spare a thought!
"What happened to women supporting women."
So, the email from the celeb's management team said: “We are organising a 40th Birthday Party for a well-known celebrity on the 1st of September 2023 in Manchester.
“In return for being a supplier for the event, payment would be made in the form of promotion on their socials with over 700K followers, as well as promoted on OK Magazine.
“They will be crediting all the suppliers on these platforms.
“The party has a guest list full of celebrities and industry people from tv/film and music, so loads of work would come from it.”
Owner of the bakery Rebecca Severs then issued the savviest of responses.
“I’m so sorry to hear that your client has fallen out on such hard times they can’t afford to pay small businesses for their products,” read her email.
“Unfortunately, as my mortgage provider doesn’t take payment ‘in the form of promotion on their socials’, and my staff can’t feed their kids with exposure on Instagram, I’ll have to decline your very generous offer.”
"Well done! Charity is one thing and that is another," one person commented.
"Good for you! What a cheek!" a second added.
"What an amazing response. Well done on that one," a third wrote.
Someone else agreed: "Excellent response as everyone is falling on hard times."
"Love it! Xx I’d love to see their reply," another person said, to which the company Facebook page admin revealed the response was 'no problem, have a lovely day'.
Owner and cake designer Rebecca told The Independent she was 'totally overwhelmed by the support and the success of it so far'.
She says that she started off the business in her home, and initially struggled to make it worth her while financially.
"I remember working after one Christmas and I made £2 an hour and thinking ‘Why am I doing this’ because it’s so stressful and it’s so time-consuming but I’m not really making a proper wage," she said.
"If you’re not getting paid properly for it, it’s not something you can do."
Thankfully Three Little Birds Bakery has over 2,000 followers on Instagram and is doing a lot better now.
"The local community and surrounding areas have just completely got behind us, it’s been so busy," she said.
