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The Brits coerced Kylie Minogue into doing ‘a shoey’. Where did this disgusting ritual originate?
It’s considered an Australian tradition, but drinking from a shoe has a long history – and the singer is just the latest high-profile target in a long line of superstars
Motorsports guys seemed to suddenly get very fond of doing shoeys on the podium in the mid 2010s, with shoe-guzzling F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo once crediting a group of Queensland surfers known as the Mad Hueys for developing it. Frequent Guardian Australia writer Katie Cunningham once did a deep dive investigation for Junkee that involved the Mad Hueys, punk bands and an international running club that had been using shoeys to haze members since they picked it up from ex-British military types in the 1930s. 2024 Brits: Raye scores six wins as women dominate the awards – video A concrete, if apocryphal shoey story comes from early 20th-century Chicago, when Prince Henry of Prussia reportedly had his whole entourage drink from the slippers of dancers inside a swanky brothel called the Everleigh Club.
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