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There’s a butter sculpture of Boris Johnson’s head and it’s marge better than you’d think

To mark the release of 2020’s Ripley’s Believe It Or Not annual, sculptor Prudence Staite spent five days modelling a bust of Boris Johnson – using butter; British butter, of course. It’s the tidiest he’s ever looked, but don’t spread that around.

Here’s how it looks.


Tim Anderson


Penguin Random House

As Mashable reported, a press release on the sculpture contained this quote from Prudence:

Butter sculpting has been around for ages. It’s an extremely fun and unique art form, though achieving a true likeness of Prime Minister Johnson was a challenge

His face is so well-known and expressive that I had no margarine for error.

As one Twitter user pointed out:

Source: Mashable Image: YouTube, Penguin, Twitter