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Lifestyle chats to Mr Tumble Liverpool How long have you been Mr Tumble Liverpool? I started MTL in April 2019 How did it start? My nephew and his little friend was convinced I looked like him, we tried to hire someone for his birthday/ christening and struggled to find someone local an affordable that done Mr Tumble, the guy we found lived down south and would have ended up costing 100's of pounds to bring to Liverpool. So after searching with no luck I decided to have my first costume made and that I'd get dressed up and get some pictures hopefully he'll believe, I done this and everyone at the party loved it and was asking me to come to their party ext that was back in 2015. I was no where near as confident of have the experience I have now but decided to give it a go .......I got a job opportunity to work away so I snapped it up went to work across the country for an outdoor children's centre and then 12
found an opportunity to go abroad to places like Turkey, Greece and the Alps and more. Have you met Justin Fletcher and what was it like? We've not met face to face unfortunately however, we've worked together on a project during the lockdown last year for Follow Your Dreams Charity who I'm an ambassador for. The wrong thing was crazy as you can tell from my face on the picture attached, I wasn't expecting him to join the zoom either........we had planned to surprise one of our charity members with a video chat from Mr Tumble and Santa when Justin joined us too! Crazy was so much fun... What do you love about what you do? I love
that I'm making people happy, from children to parents, aunties, uncle's grandparents and everyone the smiles the laughter it fuesl to my fire. The reactions from some people genuinely make me so happy, I've had people crying with happiness because theirs child is having so much fun or is so happy and to have that effect on people is crazy. I love it. Do you do sign language? I do! I've completed my level 1, 2 and 3 in Makton with Makaton Charity and use different levels of Makaton everyday depending on who I'm working with and the type of performance I'm doing. Did you make your costumes? I don't personally however, they are tailor made by a
