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    Angry Oompa Loompas and no chocolate: Wonka actor breaks silence on Willy’s Chocolate Experience chaos

    by Barney Davis Mar 01, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Supplied

    A stand-up comedian hired to play Willy Wonka at a widely criticised chocolate factory experience has spoken out after furious parents demanded refunds.

    Willy’s Chocolate Experience organiser Billy Coull apologised for his “vision of the artistic rendition of a well-known book that didn’t come to fruition” and offered 850 people their money back before closing the Glasgow experience on Saturday.

    Paul Connell said he was given 15 pages of ‘AI-generated gibberish’ (Supplied)

    One parent complained of arriving to find a “disorganised mini-maze of randomly placed oversized props, a lacklustre candy station that dispersed one jelly bean per child, and a terrifying chrome-masked character that scared many of the kids to tears”.

    ‘There was supposed to be a chocolate fountain somewhere but I never saw it’ (Stuart Sinclair/Facebook)

    Did you attend the event? If so email barney.davis.ind@independent.co.uk

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