Ventriloquist turns into TikTok star

A swimwear designer who taught herself to be a ventriloquist during the firstCovid-19 lockdown is now a TikTok star – with 30,000 followers watching hersometimes X-rated puppet shows.

With the foreign holiday market and swimwearsales crashing, feeling bored, Layla Mills, 33, bought a £15 boy glove puppetcalled Ted online and used it in a happy birthday video for her partnerStuart’s brother.