You can now get paid to drink champagne and eat cake

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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Would you like to be paid to drink champagne and eat cake? Your wish has been granted. The online exhibition platform ExpoCart.com is hiring a member of the public as a “wedding fair tester”, to review sales events in England, Wales and Scotland. The lucky candidate will be paid £50 an hour as well as travel expenses.

Nevada brothel offers to record visits

A brothel in Nevada is offering punters video souvenirs of their visits. The house of sin includes a dedicated sex tape room where visitors can record everything that goes on from multiple angles, using voice commands to Amazon’s Alexa. They are then presented with a video of their experience.

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Sports stars help break plane-pulling record

British Airways workers teamed up with sports celebrities to pull a 200-ton plane a distance of 328 feet for a Guinness World Record. Fitness coach Joe Wick, broadcasters Gabby Logan and Gary Lineker, and Paralympic wheelchair tennis silver medalist Alfie Hewett were among those taking part.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.