The teenage sensation has come under criticism from fellow players and been toured around the British light entertainment circuit over the past month
Luke Littler“I then understood that I am one of his idols. I can understand why you don’t talk at the World Championship, but at other tournaments… I recently walked up to him to shake his hand, then he takes off his earplugs and only says the essentials.
This exchange emerged two weeks after he won the Belgian Darts Open in Wieze, when 29-year-old German Ricardo “Pikachu” Pietreczko had moaned his showmanship was arrogant.by the end of the World Championship, now he’s multiple magnitudes more popular and powerful. He’s operating on a different plane. Maya Jama called him “” during his Comic Relief appearance. Like all his public events away from the oche, he looked somewhere between overawed and inconvenienced at that statement.
A week earlier Littler was a guest on the Jonathan Ross Show, alongside a bona fide A-List cast. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown, who’s engaged to Jon Bon Jovi’s son, told him she was a fan. He acted as if she’d told him she was really into skimmed milk. He’d had the same reaction to Jurgen Klopp referencing him in a press conference – “I gave it a like and went on to the next video. That was literally another day in my life.
Darts is now Luke Littler, and that’s a co-dependent relationship with a clear propensity towards toxicity. The PDC will do everything they can to extract maximum value from a teenager who already has more than twice the amount of Instagram followers they do.But perhaps more concerning in the long term is that Luke Littler is now darts. His sport is inextricable from his identity. He will likely be in his 50s before he has any reason to go long periods without playing elite darts.
“His manager Martin is excellent, his family are very supportive, we’re involved and it’s a team effort really just to make sure everything is geared around giving him the optimal opportunity to be the best he can on the oche and just get enough rest and time to himself to be a normal 17-year-old as best he can away from that.
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