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‘FUN AND FLIRTY’: Company offers fully nude cleaning service

Cleaning has never been this sexy.

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Entrepreneur Victoria Murphy, 26, started Glimmer, a cleaning company whose employees clean houses completely naked, Chronicle Live reports.

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“Indulge in your inner hedonist. Glimmer turns the mundane into something magical,” the company’s website reads.

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“From cleaning services to party hosting and more, Glimmer does it all with a twist … and a wink!”

The U.K.-based firm was established in 2017 and charges clients up to $130 for a fully nude cleaner. The price, however, depends on how many articles of clothing the client wants the employee to remove.

The cheapest option — an employee wearing lingerie — will set you back $95. To get a topless cleaner you’d have to shell out $110.

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“We are not an escort service. What we offer is fun and flirty,” Murphy said.

Not just anyone can sign up for the service either as Glimmer vets every client to protect the employees from would-be creeps.

The clientele is diverse too. Murphy explained that when she first started out, she expected her clients to be mostly older, single men.

However, she said: “We’ve had some as young as 30 and others in their 80s.”

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‘IT’S A MIRACLE’: Art collector spends $150Gs on banana taped to wall

This is bananas!

A French art collector paid $120,000 for a single banana duct-taped on a white wall, the Daily Mail reported.

The piece — named the “Comedian” — was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and sold by the art gallery Perrotin.

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Despite its name, no jokes were made after the first and second installation sold, prompting Cattelan to raise the price to $150,000.

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Three bananas later and with more interest shown than expected, Cattelan was left in shock.

“It’s a miracle; I don’t know how this happened! … When we started to work together I had to fight to convince collectors one by one to buy his work,” he said.

Cattelan doesn’t just slap up any old banana on a wall either. He says the bananas are chosen individually and sourced locally from a supermarket in Miami. The art piece also took time to perfect.

“Wherever I was travelling I had this banana on the wall. I couldn’t figure out how to finish it,” Cattelan said. “In the end, one day I woke up and I said ‘the banana is supposed to be a banana.'”

You may also remember Cattelan as the artist who created an 18-karat gold toilet worth $6 million that made international headlines when it was stolen in September.

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‘LADY GODIVA’: Woman rides horse naked, bringing attention to safety

Safety first!

Georgie Grace, 19, went viral after stripping down to ride a horse in nothing but boots and a helmet in a bid to bring awareness to how dangerous it is to ride without a helmet, the Daily Mail reported.

In a social media post, Grace wrote: “I would rather go naked than not wear a helmet,” and added she’s had numerous falls where she could have died if not for her helmet.

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The veterinary physiotherapy student’s family has apparently taken to calling her the modern-day “lady Godiva.”

“It’s all for a good cause and if it gets people’s attention, one way or another, it all helps to raise awareness,” Grace said.

“In general people’s reaction has been very positive, apart from a couple of comments that said I was ‘attention-seeking’ and ‘looking for an excuse to get naked,’ which is ridiculous,” she added.

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‘I LOVE HIM’: Woman marries rug she named ‘Mat’

A love story to stand the test of time.

Friends of Bekki Cocks told her that if she was so in love with her favourite rug, she should marry it — so she did.

In front of close family and friends, an intimate hour-long ceremony was held to wed the 26-year-old casino worker and her rug — aptly named “Mat,” the U.K. Sun reported.

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Cocks, a single mother of two, spoke about her betrothed, saying: “I bought Mat about a year ago and I’ve been banging on about how much I love him to anyone who will listen ever since.”

“It became a bit of a thing with my friends who used to joke ‘if you love Mat so much why don’t you marry him?'” Cocks said.

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Cocks said she spent “so much time looking after him — vacuuming and cleaning him a couple of times every day and making sure he always looks his very best.”

She also gives Mat a good clean in the evening to ensure he enjoys a crumb-free night after having to endure stain remover treatments to clean up messes caused by her two children during the day.

When the kids go to sleep, the two lovebirds get their alone time.

“When the kids are in bed, I’ll often just lie down with him and tell him my most private thoughts,” Cocks said, adding Mat has become her “confidant.”

No one “wears the pants” in this relationship, both partners are equal.

“I’ve also promised that while I might step on Mat from time to time, I won’t ever walk all over him,” Cock said.

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