Little Becky Hits the Big Time ; From Leprechauns to Mafiosos, She Makes the (Prank) Calls

Summary

---

AS SHE bounces on the trampoline in her garden with her neighbours, nine-year-old Rebecca Barry looks like any other child enjoying the final few days of summer. When her mother calls her in for tea, a distant 'Why?' rings out from the bottom of the garden. Like all children her age, all Becky, from Castle-knock in Dublin, wants to do is carry on playing.

But Becky is not an ordinary child. Despite her tender years, Becky Barry is on the road to stardom, both here and overseas. A quick Google of her stage name 'Little Becky' brings up hundreds of websites devoted to her and confirms the existence of a fanbase that stretches across the globe.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Little Becky Hits the Big Time ; From Leprechauns to Mafiosos, She Makes the (Prank) Calls

In the past two years, Becky has made a name for herself on Dublin's 98FM breakfast show, where she's been carrying out prank calls on unsuspecting Dubliners every morning at 8.40am. The phrase 'They've been 'Becky'd' has been coined to describe the reaction of her flabbergasted victims, and she has the station's 200,000 listeners in stitches on a daily basis.

So far, she's phoned a crane company to lift her lazy d...

See the full content of this document

---