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The annual choice of who will be the giant Guy to go on the bonfire's become a global news story over the years.
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00:00How will you be celebrating Bonfire Night?
00:02Many will be celebrating with the Eden Bridge Bonfire Society
00:06that has been poking fun at infamous celebrities for more than 25 years.
00:10In previous years we have seen Prime Ministers being recreated in the effigy
00:15but this year it's not a person or a politician but ticket master
00:20and this is because of the amount of backlash it received earlier this year
00:23due to the seal of Oasis tickets.
00:25Public really you know they suggested Keir Starmer
00:28which I think would be of no surprise to everybody that he was the top choice for this year
00:32but also after deliberation we decided that the amount of disappointed fans
00:38from Ticketmaster who were trying to get their Oasis tickets
00:40that they deserved to be our effigy for this year.
00:43Nearly 10,000 people attend this annual family event
00:46travelling in from London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.
00:51The effigy went up today to check that everything looked good and worked well
00:54as the process to make the structure is quite difficult.
00:58The process takes around a month as in we do these things during weekends
01:06the structural work is so much longer you know what you don't see you know
01:11is actually the most time-consuming thing
01:14whereas the painting actually is probably about three days if that
01:18but it's positioning things and most difficult thing I find is the scale of it
01:23because actually I don't get to see it at all until the press sees it on a day
01:27because we can't put this together easily
01:30so all I see is the elements that I paint but never see it together
01:36so I don't actually know whether it's going to be in proportion
01:40whether it's going to look okay so that's the hard process that you know goes into it.
01:46As the politicians and celebrities slide away this year in turn for a corporation
01:51the effigy will succumb to the gas pedal this Saturday
01:54being surrounded by explosions and fireworks.
01:57Kristen Hawthorne for KMTV

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