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This week British reality TV show I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here - in which dangerously underfed famous (and sometimes confusingly not-famous) people compete for the right to eat kangaroo testicles and camel anus in the grand finale - aw the revelation of the strangest team-up in musical history.

DIY show host Nick Knowles (who infamously released an album a few years ago and became both a meme and a tragedy at the same time) told the Jungle Diary camera that he had been talent spotted by a record label employee while jamming with a band in a roof-top bar in London. That's strange enough, but it turns out it was Scottish legends Biffy Clyro that he was jamming with.

The whole story was so Alan Partridge it hurt and I'm A Celeb Host Declan Donnelly then got a dedicated hashtag trending to mock Knowles pretence that he was initially not going to reveal the band in fear of embarrassing them. That's why you might have seen this trending in the UK last night: #BiffyClyroNotEmbarrassedTheyJammedWithNickKnowles

Inevitably, fans took to it with glee and it wasn't long before Biffy's Wikipedia page was changed to declare them Nick Knowles' backing band. To offer context for American readers: this is like Guy Fieri revealing he once played a show with Metallica.

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