A swimwear designer who taught herself to be a ventriloquist during the first Covid-19 lockdown is now a TikTok star – with 30,000 followers watching her sometimes X-rated puppet shows. With the foreign holiday market and swimwear sales crashing, feeling bored, Layla Mills, 33, bought a £15 boy glove puppet called Ted online and used it in a happy birthday video for her partner Stuart’s brother.