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Mayin' Alive! British PM's dance moves dubbed the 'Maybot'

August 29, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May breaks out into a dance as she cheers on a group of schoolchildren performing a dance in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday. - AP
British Prime Minister Theresa May breaks out into a dance as she cheers on a group of schoolchildren performing a dance in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday. - AP

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May's somewhat stiff dance moves won mixed reviews on Wednesday as she became an unlikely social media star with her "Maybot" maneuvers. The PM got into the groove in Cape Town on Tuesday when she was welcomed to South Africa by some dancing schoolchildren. The 61-year-old joined in the fun with some shapes reminiscent of gangly former England footballer Peter Crouch's robot dance - before looking up, clocking the cameras and drastically reining it in. The Daily Telegraph newspaper said it was "the exact moment where she loses the will to live" - the forthcoming avalanche of social media mockery appearing before her very eyes. But before that, just for a few seconds, "we saw who Theresa May really was... just a woman, flapping about in front of some bewildered kids like she was being attacked by eels. "It was without doubt the most human she has ever looked, which is an odd thing to say about a video that looks like a possessed shop mannequin being Tasered." The Sun compared her to John Travolta with the headline "Mayin' Alive!" - but called her performance "toe-curling". The Daily Mail said the "robotic nature of her game attempts" saw her moves dubbed the "Maybot" on social media. Meanwhile May's dance made it onto the front page of The Guardian, which called it "an impression of a wobbly fridge". - AFP


August 29, 2018
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