Charity Breaks into 'sex shop' trade
A SAUCY sex shop opened in Swaffham on Thursday – but there was no need for townsfolk to choke on their cornflakes because it was for one day only.
The BREAK charity shop in the Market Place was transformed into Tiger Lilly's sex shop for the second series of the ITV1 drama Kingdom, due to be shown next spring.
Actor Stephen Fry, who stars in the lead role of solicitor Peter Kingdom, and Karl Davies, who plays his legal clerk Lyle, took part in filming in the shop, which lies opposite the entrance to Swaffham parish church.
A Kingdom spokesman said the storyline sees the pair visit Tiger Lilly's in the fictional setting of Market Shipborough to speak to the lady owner. She is hell-bent on suing the local cricket club because they will not feature the shop's naughty logo on their jumpers, even though she is sponsoring them.
While they are in the shop, his accident-prone assistant gets distracted by the array of sexy paraphernalia, bumps into the displays and ends up covered in scanty bras, knickers and the like.
BREAK spokesman Sarah Bunn said the charity was being paid by the production company to let it use the shop for three days and was delighted that its Swaffham premises would be featured on national television.
"We did think of the controversy of having our shop turned into a sex shop, but realised that if it wasn't ours it would be another – and it's not staying this way!" she said. "It's also a real privilege to be asked to be involved – our volunteers and staff have been very excited."
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