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chocolate for two Mars M&M factory workers who had to be rescued after falling into a large tank full of the treat.In scenes reminiscent of Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, the employees fell into the tank of liquid confectionery on Thursday afternoon at the facility in Elizabethtown, in the Lancaster County part of Pennsylvania.Unable to climb out of the large container, emergency services were called and firefighters had to cut a large hole in the side of the vessel in order to free the unlucky duo.“Fire crews eliminated pulling them straight out of the tank," Brad Wolfe, communications supervisor for Lancaster County 911 dispatch, told CNN earlier. “They had to cut a hole in the side of the tank to get them out.”It is not known how the pair managed to fall into the tank, but they were then taken to hospital after their ordeal, where the extent of their injuries is unknown.Assistant supervisor Nick Schoenberger added: “One patient was transported by ground and one person was transported by helicopter.”To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.The dramatic incident caused much merriment on social media, with plenty of references to Willy Wonka, while someone even posted a picture of Augustus Gloop, who fell into the Chocolate Room’s Chocolate River.In the story the infamous character is sucked through a pipe to the factory's Fudge Room, where his parents have to retrieve him from the mixing machine.A company spokesperson told The Sun: “We can confirm both people have been taken offsite for further evaluation.

A talented young Lanarkshire actress is to make her stage debut after landing a starring role in the West End and Broadway smash hit Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical.

yank six titles — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “On Beyond Zebra!” — from print in 2021, citing supposedly offensive content in the picture books.And, over the decades, Richard Scarry’s classic children’s books have been retroactively tinkered with time and again by sensitivity readers. Editors sought to counteract gender stereotypes… by making a policeman bear a policewoman bear, and swapping an illustration of a mom cat pushing a stroller out for a dad cat.Not even “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is safe.

Ricky Gervais has entered the debate surrounding Roald Dahl’s books for children, which have been edited to remove words like “fat” and “ugly” in their most recent versions. 

maligned by many, the notorious Roald Dahl word purge could prove a boon to one segment of society: the owners of the original books. “Unedited” versions of the classic children’s novels have reportedly been listed for as much as $7,000 on eBay.This comes after the news broke that Puffin Books — a Penguin Books imprint for children — had tapped so-called sensitivity experts to scrub language they deemed offensive in an effort to appease the “woke” masses.

Publisher Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, has edited Roald Dahl’s books in an effort to reflect a more inclusive language. Titles like James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have been altered by modifying words that are now deemed offensive.

Gene Wilder as the enigmatic titular chocolatier, and a cast of child actors as the lucky recipients of the golden tickets, who were granted a tour of Wonka's top-secret factory and all the sweets they could eat — though, as any fan knows, the candy-colored dream isn't all that it seems.To celebrate the film's fittingly golden anniversary, ET's Lauren Zima spoke with four of the main cast members — Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie Bucket; Julie Dawn Cole, who played Veruca Salt; Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop; and Paris Themmen, who played Mike Teavee — to share their memories from the set of the iconic film.«All of it was pretty much the way you would expect that it was, especially the chocolate room,» Themmen recalled of

He found fame as a child as Augustus Gloop in Gene Wilder's iconic movie Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. But even the mist die hard fan would have struggled to recognise Michael Bollner when he appeared on This Morning on Tuesday.