Leighton Buzzard headteacher re-creates hilarious dance scene from iconic Love Actually film
The headteacher of Cedars Upper School showed he had all the moves when filming the famous Hugh Grant dance scene from Love Actually.
Mark Gibbs put all inhibitions aside to recreate the famous scene from Love Actually, with the video filmed for the school’s Christmas Advent project.
The video has gone down a storm after being posted on the school's Facebook page, which states: “Our Head Teacher decided to treat us to a full rendition of the Love Actually dance this morning. We’ve gotta give it to him—the moves are (surprisingly) all there!”
The video features Mark strutting his stuff as dancing ‘Prime Minister’ Hugh Grant to the music of The Pointer Sisters’ Jump (For Your Love), in the much-loved rom-com released back in 2003.
It shows him dancing through empty corridors and on the stairs of the school before opening the boardroom door to discover bemused members of the school leadership team.
See the video here.
School manager Nicola McGiff, said: “It was such a great idea, the response has been fantastic. Everyone loved it. It’s been so well received by the pupils, parents, staff and wider community across the town.
“Everyone got involved and were on board with it. Mark was really up for doing the Hugh Grant dance. But he didn't even rehearse it, it was a one-take shot.”
The Christmas Advent concept was put together by Lewis Duncan, who is responsible for Designer Marketing at the school, after suggesting staff film a video to music each day in the lead up to Christmas.
They all chose different themes including Elf the Movie, a mock snowball fight and the music teacher is even filmed performing a rock rendition of ‘Do You Want to Build A Snowman’, from the film Frozen.
Nicola added: “The feedback has been incredible and even staff at other schools have been in touch to say how much they enjoyed it and that ‘we broke the internet' it was so good.
“We’re so pleased and grateful to all the staff who worked in their spare time and during breaks to put the videos together. It was a great way of connecting and showing the human side of teachers and staff. It also helped to spread some festive cheer.”