Captain Beany has said he remains an ‘edible bachelor’ as he continues his quest to find true love.

The self-proclaimed ‘eccentric’ from Wales closed his Baked Bean Museum of Excellence in his hometown of Port Talbot two years ago to find his ideal life partner.

Beany, born Barry Kirk, who has 60 baked bean tattoos on his head and tattooed legumes for eyebrows, said he has been ‘too busy doing my own thing’ to find love and has left it up to the universe to find his soulmate.

The 70-year-old told Metro: ‘I’m still an edible bachelor.

‘I believe in fate. What’s to bean will bean.’ While he said he is not on any dating apps, he tried his luck on Paul O’Grady’s reboot of Blind Date on Channel 5 in 2017, dressed in an orange superhero outfit, but left the show a single man.

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