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When asked how he feels to be immortalized as a sculpted sponge cake with coconut lime mousse, he doesn’t flinch.

Yankovic is a “pop culture sponge” and has always listened to various music genres, first for pleasure and then for work.

Mr Hawes, who was a chef and a baker on aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, will make Mr Shelley's birthday cake – a Victoria sponge.

The diver, a graduate student, was using sponges to collect DNA samples from the ocean floor.

“She’s like a sponge,” he says, adding that she also can be her own harshest critic.