Curry house staff tricked by joker claiming to be legendary singer

STAFF astatine a curry location were tricked by a joker claiming to beryllium the vocalist Paul Weller.

They opened up Bilash Restaurant aboriginal for him and rushed retired his order.

The cook posed with the fake Paul for a pic, which unit enactment connected societal media.

Fans of The Modfather, 66, playing a gig astatine the adjacent Wolverhampton Civic Hall, past piled into the restaurant.

One spotted the fake — who paid for his prawn curry — arsenic helium left.

Simon Cartlidge, 58, said: “Paul Weller is my hero.

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"The feline looked much similar ex-footballer Robbie Savage.

"When we enactment unit straight, I deliberation they wanted the level to swallow them up.”

The Bilash’s manager told The Sun: “He said helium was Paul Weller. We were truthful impressed we adjacent enactment his playlist connected and everyone ate their curry listening to Wild Wood and his champion tracks.

“As soon arsenic we enactment a connection connected Facebook, abruptly crowds descended. Word got retired truthful fast. It was packed aboriginal evening.

“People went up to the feline and helium was signing autographs and confirming his legendary status.

"We sat him successful the beforehand model array truthful everyone could spot him. Our cook Rex posed for a photograph with his thumbs up.

A batch of radical were tricked that night.”