'Spice Girls' twigs sold for £62
''I expected to make a handful of friends laugh. I didn't expect to have 1,237 people watching the Twigs at the end of the week.''
A man sold six twigs on the internet for over £50.
Seller Babak Ganjei, from Hackney in north-east London, put the twigs up for sale on internet marketplace eBay in a bid to amuse his friends, but after describing the sticks as having ''characters'' like the 'Spice Girls' had over 27 bids on the bizarre items with the winner paying a whopping £62.
Mr Ganjei, 35 - who picked the ''premium twigs'' from the upmarket De Beauvior Sqaure in Hackney - wrote on the site: ''Like the Spice Girls each twig has it's own character and you can't just replace one with another twig.''
He later explained to the Daily Express newspaper: ''I expected to make a handful of friends laugh. I didn't expect to have 1,237 people watching the Twigs at the end of the week.''