6-year-old goes viral for his 'brutally honest' Shirley Temple critiques
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This 6-year-old food and beverage critic reviews just one drink: Shirley Temples.
Leo Kelly is only in first grade, but he’s already a connoisseur of the nonalcoholic cocktail, posting video reviews of his grenadine-filled exploits to his Instagram account @theshirleytempleking.
“This is the first time I’ve ever had a Shirley Temple with a cherry outside, not inside — but let’s try it out,” says the pint-sized influencer in one video, before taking a sip. He awards it a 7.8 on a 10-point scale.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The pint-sized critic tells The Post his inspiration for the account began when his Fairfield County, Connecticut-based family was on vacation in Rhode Island in August. Leo asked if he could have one.
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“Then I drank it, and I was like, mmm, this is really good,” he says. He asked his dad if he could make an Instagram to review them. “He said, ‘yeah sure’ and I said I think ‘Shirley Temple King’ is a good name.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Little Leo’s 300-some followers jumped Monday night to his current 31,400-plus fans as of Tuesday afternoon, after a tweet about his “brutally honest reviews,” went viral on Twitter.
The follower increase, Leo says, has left him “really mind blown.”
His family is also surprised.
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“I know the entertainment space really well, but I didn’t think it would happen to my son,” Leo’s dad, Tom Kelly, tells The Post of the account’s sudden virality.
“I think I drank one too many Shirley Temples when I was pregnant with him,” his mom, Lisa Kelly, adds. “He’s been ordering them since he could talk.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Now, mom and dad serve as videographers as he drinks and rates the Temples on a 10-point scale — although Leo’s yet to find a Temple deserving of a 10.
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“I only go up to 9 and a half,” he says. He maintains hope that he’ll one day find that perfect Shirley, though.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I think it’s out there,” he says, adding that it’ll have “cherries on the outside and the cherries on the inside.”
Also, it’ll be served to him with an extra-long straw in a glass cup, as those are “better for the environment,” than plastic ones. And, it’ll have a little American flag. “Those are super duper rare,” he says.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His quest for the perfect Shirley has driven him to make his own — usually consisting of a whole can of ginger ale, poured over three or four cups of ice with three cherries, and a straw.
Read the full article on The New York Post.