Pizza Express’s response went viral after Prince Andrew used its Woking branch as an alibi
As you’ll probably have seen by now, Pizza Express was catapulted into the spotlight at the weekend by Prince Andrew’s interview on BBC2’s Newsnight.
The prince used a visit to its Woking branch as his alibi for the allegation that on the same day he had sex with Virginia Giuffre, then aged 17, one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged trafficking victims.
“On the date that’s being suggested I was at home with the children… I’d taken Beatrice to Pizza Express in Woking.”
Prince Andrew tells @maitlis he was elsewhere the night it has been claimed he had his photo taken with a woman who says they had sex
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/XoDEALx5MJ— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) 16 November 2019
And it prompted no end of fake reviews for the Woking restaurant, which you can read all about here.
People also enjoyed the response to the breaking news story by Pizza Express on Twitter.
9:00 pm – Switch off computer 🍷
10:00 pm – 120 messages on work WhatsApp group telling you to "check Twitter now" 😳 pic.twitter.com/ErVOEXtNVi— PizzaExpress 🍕 (@PizzaExpress) 16 November 2019
And it prompted some very tasty replies.
Pizza Express: When you really, really *really* need an alibi.
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) 16 November 2019
— Zed (@ZedTrafficker) 16 November 2019
— James O'Leary (@jamesoleary2020) 16 November 2019
Might I suggest you start selling a jaunty range of topical t-shirts just in time for Christmas?
#pizzaexpress pic.twitter.com/earJoABtAw
— Pip Jones (@pip_says) 17 November 2019
Did he use a voucher?
— Nathan Makan (@nathanmakan) 16 November 2019
You will have to launch a new pizza with a ‘Stuffed upper crust’ 🍕
— Stephanie Fuller 🏌️♀️⛳️ (@IndigoSteph) 17 November 2019
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Source @PizzaExpress
