A couple of sticky women stripped naked and covered themselves in jam in the middle of Manchester.

Bewildered shoppers stopped to watch the spectacle as it unfolded on Market Street just before midday today.

A crowd quickly formed around the two women, who were sitting on a bench outside Barclays bank in the centre of the busy shopping street.

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Footage shows several onlookers filming the women on their phones as they sit side by side covered head to toe in a red substance.


Officers soon arrived to speak to them and they began covering themselves up in white sheets.

One shopper told the Manchester Evening News that they appeared to be covered in some kind of red jam.



He said: ‘They looked like they were rubbing strawberry jam on each other.’

They were quite the spectacle for shoppers in Manchester (Picture: MEN Media)

They wrapped themselves in white sheets when the police turned up (Picture: MEN Media)

Greater Manchester Police said they are ‘looking into’ the incident (Picture: MEN Media)

Confused onlookers took to Twitter to try and find out who and why they were there.

Issy Thwaite wrote: ‘Why on earth have I just seen two girls completely naked COVERED IN JAM sat on a bench in the middle of Manchester wiping bread off each other and eating it.’

While @jacxhhhh commented: ‘Not every day u see two naked women rubbing jam over themselves in market street yeah.’

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said officers are ‘looking into’ the incident.

They added: ‘Officers were called to Market Street following reports of two naked women sat on a bench covered in jam.’

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