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25ft Jeff Goldblum statue was made in Telford

A giant sized Jeff Goldblum monument that caused a stir in London was created by a third generation family business in Telford.

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The giant sized Jeff Goldblum monument

The statue sat on London's South Bank, where it became an unlikely tourist attraction.

And the Hollywood actor came face-to-face with part of giant artwork when he appeared on the Graham Norton Show.

It is a major coup for Bakers Patterns Ltd, which has been commissioned to produce a number of wild and wacky sculptures over the years.

The statue was displayed back in July to commemorate 25 years of Jurassic Park – and to plug this year's Jurassic Park: The Fallen Kingdom.

It shows Goldblum reclining, open-shirted, in a recreation of his famous pose from the 1993 dinosaur blockbuster.

A section of the 25 foot monument before painting
Carved polystyrene figurehead of Jeff Goldblum
Bakers Paterns LTD were delighted when their work featured on the Graham Norton Show

Bakers Patterns, based in Stafford Park, Telford, specialises in high quality polystyrene and polyurethane model production.

"We used a really big CNC machine, one of the biggest ones in Britain, to carve the polystyrene piece," explained Max Baker of Bakers Patterns LTD.

"We were commissioned by sculptor Nicholas Alexander. Once completed the model was sent to London to be painted and displayed.

"We were all excited to see it appear on the Graham Norton show recently.

"It's crazy to see, you get numb to it when you do this job all the time. I turn on a film and think-oh yeah we made that.

"We've done a lot of work for Antony Gormley, the famous sculptor, as well as things for Marvel films, especially Captain America, and Disney."

Goldblum played Dr Ian Malcolm in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and had a cameo in this year's sequel. He appeared in a number of box office smash hits, most famously the Jurassic films and the 1987 horror remake The Fly.