Bingo Goes Blue and It’s Leaving Residents Red-Faced

Topless Men Serving Food and Drinks Anyone?

One thing you expect to find in a bingo club is (numbered) balls, but not the type of balls Apollo Bingo in Barrow are soon to host! Hardly surprising to learn the popular bingo hall has come under fire recently in what residents deem to be a “desperate” move, and there seems to be a few getting all hot under the collar, but why?

A bingo club is just for bingo, right? Wrong! This particular club is soon to ditch its light-hearted entertainment in favour of something a little more risqué, and not everyone is happy about it! Table service with topless male waiters and male strippers accompanied by a drag queen or not everyone’s idea of fun but they are set to take to the stage for one night only this April and it’s already causing a stir among the Barrow-in-Furness community.

Ripped and Ready

Attendees are warned to “leave your inhibitions at the door” for a night of raunchy X-Rated fun. The show will contain nudity and language aimed at an adult audience with a warning to stay away to those who are easily offended. Commencing for four hours, the show guarantees to be red-hot from start to finish but to appease the residents, Apollo Bingo are throwing in some bingo games prior to the entertainment.

If Saturday night bingo was your thing, you may have to reschedule on April 2^nd, or you could arrive just before 7pm to play 60-minutes of prize-money bingo before rushing to an exit at 8pm! ID checks will be in operation and tickets for the ‘blue show’ will be available on the door or can be booked in advance online.

An Apollo Bingo spokesman said: “Leave you inhibitions at the door and get ready to join in with the biggest, baddest, funniest and coolest night in Barrow. This raunchy, X-rated show contains male nudity and language aimed at an adult audience. If easily offended, please stay away.”

Comments such as “not the level or entertainment you expect from a bingo hall” and “stinks of desperation” mean this is one event that may not go to plan. One Barrow resident even came up with his own bingo lingo for what he calls a “seedy event” with “six and nine, a stripper in line” taking the top-comment spot. One jokingly commented that the bingo club should have an ambulance on stand-by for all the old women on mobility scooters.

What do you make of the upcoming event? Is it something that could give high street bingo a boost or something that could back-fire dramatically? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: “Male Strippers and Topless Waiters at Barrow Bingo Hall”. The Mail. March 11, 2022.