Astley (who incidentally used to visit the dentist’s opposite my mum’s house – beat that! Ed) hit the news on How-Do earlier this month with the story that he’d been ‘rickrolled’ on to the shortlist for best ever act.
This left him sitting, no doubt rather uncomfortably, between U2, Green Day, Tokio Hotel and Britney Spears.
Now devoted fan Mark Lancaster has contacted us to reveal that he is convinced Astley is “a sure thing” for the gong, in part due to the fact that he claims “we have 440 million confirmed votes for Rick.”
At the time of writing we had no way of accurately confirming this landslide of votes for the Cheshire-born pop crooner, but, with the success of Astley’s fans in galvanising support for him before, we couldn’t discount it either.
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Lancaster took up the tale for us: “He's currently winning by miles and we're aiming to get him as many confirmed votes as there are people in Europe,” he said, adding that MTV does not restrict the amount of online votes from individual voters (i.e. Lancaster could have voted 440million times, Ed).
The Astley aficionado noted that he and fellow fans had “an amazing campaign going, with literally hundreds of thousands of people having helped out.”
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