Wedding DJ Kev Riley, former star of the long-cancelled UK TV show Come Dine With Me, was the overnight sensation 13 years ago when he got an entire whisk in his mouth.
To this day, he is a well-liked meme that frequently appears in video clips and on social media.
The meme sensation showed he is frequently seen on the streets due to the never-fading meme informing FUBAR radio, “Social media and TikTok in particular has made it incredible.”
Although popular, Kev recently confessed regretfully that he hadn’t earned a penny.
“I haven’t made money from this.”
“If I had, maybe I’d have been a millionaire… but it’s just about the laugh.”
“It’s been great fun. I have always had a quirky personality,” he added.
Kev revealed that his appearance on the show was not planned and it was all a gimmick after his friend arranged it.
“A mate had put my name forward as a laugh. It was all an accident really. It all went from there. I did not practice or prepare and I actually came last.”
Discussing his online fame he added, “It is quite mad really. I am recognised everywhere I go. I can’t just mind my own business.”
“It is like being a full-time celebrity.”
Sadly, not all of his encounters with individuals who recognize who he is have been good, as he was punched out of the blue one evening in the face.
“It was awful really.”
“I was with my wife, and we were just having a nice evening,” he recalled.
“It’s a real shame.”
In 2021, Kev became part of a Podcast named The Curious Cast, where he clarified that he precisely knew what he was doing with the iconic whisk; he was only trying to see if he could get the producer laughing.
“I knew at the time that I did it because they all absolutely wet themselves laughing… I thought, ‘That’s definitely gonna be in the show’.”
“Then when it was on, it wasn’t something that everyone was talking about, but it was a couple of years later, the first time it got shared, and then a couple of years after that, and then it seems like it never dies.”
“It’s a strange thing just when I think it’s done now, I don’t think anyone’s shared it for a bit, then all of a sudden Lindt the chocolate company will have shared it.”
“Or Lee Evans shared it once, then there’s some bloke that goes in the Capitol building in Washington that looks like me.”
“It seems whatever the news is at the time, it gets applied to that and re-shared.”
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