Villagers craft effigy of Matt Hancock and his lover Gina Coladangelo for scarecrow competition – complete with a cardboard hand resting suggestively on his aide’s bottom

• Villagers created an effigy of Matt Hancock and his lover Gina Coladangelo
• It was crafted as part of the Eaton Village scarecrow festival in Norwich
• The scarecrow was overwhelmingly voted ‘funniest scarecrow’ in the village

Villagers have created a cheeky effigy of Matt Hancock and his lover Gina Coladangelo for their annual scarecrow competition.

The straw-stuffed former Health Secretary is seen with his arms wrapped around a bird-scaring version of his former aide, complete with a large pasty-looking cardboard hand, fingers splayed, resting suggestively on his lover’s bottom.

The tongue-in-cheek scarecrow was crafted as part of the Eaton Village scarecrow festival in Norwich, Norfolk, which took place between July 17 and 25 and has run for the past 12 years.

According to the Eaton Village Residents’ Association (EVRA), the Hancock scarecrow was the brainchild of the Atkinson family of Church Lane. 

It was overwhelmingly voted ‘funniest scarecrow’ in the village and the family won a voucher for their efforts. 

The 2021 competition theme was ‘discovery’, which was ‘to celebrate what our scientists and others have achieved over the centuries, and in particular during the past year,’ the village’s website states.

The straw-stuffed former Health Secretary is seen with his arms wrapped around a bird-scaring version of his former aide

Next Slide Please: Another entry into the scarecrow competition in Eaton Village, Norwich

The tongue-in-cheek crow was crafted as part of the Eaton Village scarecrow festival in Norwich, Norfolk (pictured: Another submission, an ET scarecrow) 

Pictured: An Einstein scarecrow entered into the competition in Eaton Village 

Some of the other entries included a straw-stuffed Marie Curie, a tongue-wagging Albert Einstein and a suited and stuffed version of Chris Whitty standing behind a podium emblazoned with a ‘stay home, save lives, protect the NHS’ slogan.

One family even crafted a super-size coronavirus out of a football, with a stuffed scientist sitting opposite ready to jab it out of existence.

EVRA Vice-Chair Chris Stebbing explained: ‘Our Scarecrow Festival started back in 2010. It was a low-key event with only six entries.

‘I joined the Residents’ Association committee around that time and took on responsibility for organising the 2011 festival where we introduced a two-stage competition where judges selected their favourites.

Pictured: Lightning Mary. The festival took place between July 17 and 25, and is a firm favourite with villagers, having run for the past 12 years

‘Then residents toured the scarecrows over a weekend and voted for their favourites with prizes awarded for the winners of each category.

‘We have run a similar process since then with either the local Waitrose or Notcutts Garden Centre providing the judges’ prizes and EVRA or other local businesses donating prizes for winners.

‘Each year has a different theme, it is a positive community activity which encourages people to get to know their neighbours better.

‘We get good feedback from residents and visitors so we know that people do enjoy seeing the scarecrows and the amazing responses to our themes, some of which are educational – as well as the occasional naughty one like the Matt Hancock scarecrow.’

Local resident Steven Hunte posted about the hilarious effigy on TikTok, saying: ‘So the scarecrow festival has started in my village and erm, I can’t wait to share this f***ing nightmare fuel with all of you.’

The camera then pans to Mr Han-crow and Gina as a voiceover says: ‘Hancock’s hanky panky.’

Other offerings include a fisherman who Steven describes as ‘a creepy dude that probably watches you sleep’ and an elderly crow positioned behind a makeshift desk in another resident’s front garden.

Eureka! Another entry in the Eaton Village scarecrow competition 

Corona Crusher: One of the entries into the Eaton Village scarecrow competition 

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