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‘We were a bit naive about privacy’: LadBaby on blackmail, backlash – and their Christmas No 1s

They are the couple who became pop stars and anti-poverty campaigners, fundraising for food banks with their songs about sausage rolls. Then came threats so extreme the anti-terror police stepped in ...

Now they’ve written a memoir, Our LadBaby Journey, detailing much of this, and it seems a bit of a cautionary tale – what happens when two ordinary people become online celebrities, and some silly Christmas songs about sausage rolls end with threats and the police involved. They had been largely celebrated when their first Christmas single had been released in 2018, a cover of Starship’s We Built This City, rewritten about sausage rolls to raise money for Trussell (Roxanne’s mother was a food bank volunteer). We’re not credible music artists, but it was sad because a lot of people could have helped the charity Roxanne Hoyle In 2022, the couple were sent a video by someone who claimed it showed Mark groping a woman in a Nottingham bar, and demanded £10,000 to prevent it being released.

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