A small business owner has fired back after she was asked to cater a TV star’s 40th birthday for free.
Rebecca Severs, who owns Three Little Birds Bakery in Keighley, West Yorkshire, received an email asking her to make two birthday cakes and over 100 cupcakes in exchange for ‘social media exposure’ from a ‘well-known celebrity’, who is now reported to be Catherine Tyldesley.
The theme of the event was to be ‘pink, sparkles and a touch of flamingos’, with two birthday cakes, one for Catherine’s husband Tom, as well as the 100 cupcakes mentioned.
Rebecca, however, declined the ‘opportunity’.
‘I’m so sorry to hear that your client has fallen on such hard times they can’t afford to pay small businesses their products,’ she replied.
‘Unfortunately as my mortgage provider doesn’t take payment “in the form of promotion on their socials”, and my staff can’t feed their kids with exposure on Instagram, I’ll have to decline your very generous offer.’
Rebecca subsequently took to her bakery’s social media page, which received a number of new followers in the wake of the story breaking, writing that she’s been ‘blown away’ by the support.
Catherine, who is best known for playing Eva Price in Coronation Street, was named as the celebrity by Mail Online after another bakery told the publication that they had received the same email.
Responding to ‘cake gate’, Catherine took to social media.
In a story posted on her Instagram on Wednesday (August 2) morning, the Strictly Come Dancing star said that she ‘had no idea those emails were being sent.’
Catherine said that the event organisers ‘are an amazing company and they’ve been completely misrepresented in this’, branding the matter ‘utterly bizarre’.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Catherine’s reps and the event organisers for comment.
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