Shoppers baffled as Tesco sells cardboard cutouts of stars including Matt Hancock and Shakespeare

Milk? Check. Bread? Check. Life-sized cutout of your favourite celebrity?

It’s not portion of your mean shopping list, but Tesco person launched a bizarre scope of life-sized cardboard cuts of A-list celebrities.

For £38.99 each, you tin bargain stand-ins for your favourite actors, singers and adjacent animated characters.

Some of the celebrities are peculiarly head-scratching: there’s a scope of Tory politicians including Theresa May and Matt Hancock, oregon if you’re much left-leaning you tin bargain Jeremy Corbyn.

If authorities aren’t you thing, however astir the 1975’s Matty Healy? Or possibly you’d similar different of Taylor’s exes – there’s besides Tom Hiddleston and Jake Gyllenhaal for sale.

Whatever niche personage you’re a instrumentality of, Tesco appears to person you covered – determination seems to beryllium a chopped retired of astir everyone. A diehard instrumentality of Annalena Baerbock, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany? Never fear, caput to Tesco.

There’s adjacent a cutout of the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.

Available connected Tesco’s marketplace, and sold by marque by Partyrama, determination is besides a chopped retired of One Direction’s Liam Payne, who tragically died earlier this week, aged conscionable 31.

Shoppers were speedy to spot the unusual summation to the supermarket’s website, taking to X to stock their bemusment.

‘Oh hold you’re nipping to Tesco? Do you caput getting america immoderate room roll, butter, and different beingness sized Vicky McClure cardboard cutout plz,’ joked @ciaraaelliss.

And user, Leigh, asked: ‘Who is going to Tesco to bash their play store and reasoning I cognize what I need. A Yungblud cardboard cutout?’

Others were confused by the astounding enactment of rather truthful galore A-listers.

‘Tesco are selling cardboard chopped outs of everyone,’ wrote @EmmaGWeston. ‘I’ve been scrolling looking astatine them for truthful agelong I’m frightened that I whitethorn travel crossed 1 of myself.’

The cut-outs are disposable successful the ‘party essentials’ conception of Tesco’s website, sold done their marketplace, which arrives separately to a modular nutrient shop.

The Tesco website reads: ‘All Tesco Marketplace products are sold and dispatched straight from our trusted partners and delivered by station oregon courier. 

‘All Tesco market orders are sold and delivered by us, from either your section store oregon 1 of our fulfilment centres. 

‘This means that, adjacent erstwhile you bid Marketplace products and groceries astatine the aforesaid time, they’ll beryllium delivered separately.’

It’s bizarrely not the archetypal clip cardboard chopped outs person made headlines this week. Actor Andrew Garfield headed to the UK premier of the We Live In Time movie with a cardboard cutout of his co-star Florence Pugh, aft scheduling conflicts meant she couldn’t marque it.

Perhaps helium picked her up from Tesco?

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