Vegfest: Celebrity vegans hit the Brighton Centre

The weekend of 11th to 12th March sees the 9th annual VegfestUK Brighton event at The Brighton Centre, and the celebrity vegan guest list just seems to get longer every year, with some especially big hitters for 2017.

Vegan strongman Patrik Baboumian is the star of the show in more ways than one – apart from being absolutely huge, he is also a world champion strongman and vegan for a numbers of years now. He’s visiting on the Sunday and will be presenting in front of 200 visitors as well as joining a panel on easy veganism – whilst helping transform the rather tired and dated vegan stereotype of ‘weak’ and ‘feeble to ‘extremely strong’ and ‘really rather large’ as well as being one of the highest achievers on the planet in his chosen field.

Actor Peter Egan of Downton Abbey fame is another guest of honour at the event, which sees over 200 stalls and 20 caterers packed with the latest vegan products and food, and will be joined by another well known TV personality, presenter Wendy Turner-Webster, who many will know from the much loved TV series Pet Rescue. And some highly achieving vegan athletes will also be joining the estimated 12,000 visitors, with World Record Holding cyclist Kate Strong, Belgian cyclist Christine Vardaros, professional English freerunner Tim Shieff and extreme marathon runner Fiona Oakes also amongst the guests.

The rise in all things vegan continues to escalate

Vegan comedian Carl Donnelly is a well known name from the independent comedy circuit, heading up a vegan comedy festival on the Sunday along with Chris Stokes. The show also features live bands, a vegan film festival, kids areas, Teen Zones, Mature Zones, a number of vegan cookery demos and over 100 talks and presentations from speakers and presenters as the rise in all things vegan continues to escalate across the UK.

VegFest, The Brighton Centre, 11-12 March, 11am-6pm (Saturday)
and 10am-5pm (Sunday), £7 a day or £10 for the whole weekend
Tickets available to buy at www.brighton.vegfest.co.uk/admission