“I almost forget that we made that up,” Ms. Blewitt find it equally surreal to see Shakira and others dancing to their moves. “It would be too much to call it a dance. “Anthony Hopkins has just done a thing yesterday,” Mr. The cast of Downton Abbey jiggle-jiggled during a red carpet event. It burst out of TikTok and into the mainstream last month, when Shakira performed the “Jiggle Jiggle” dance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Snoop Dogg, Megan Thee Stallion and Rita Ora have all posted themselves dancing to it. “I got an email: ‘Hey, a remix of the rap you did on “Chicken Shop Date” is going viral and doing extraordinary things on TikTok.’ I’m, like, ‘Well, that’s funny and weird.’” “This was all going on without me knowing about it,” Mr. Copycat videos soon sprang up from TikTok users around the world. Blewitt made a 27-second video of themselves performing the routine. Wearing hooded sweatshirts and shades (an outfit chosen because they weren’t wearing makeup, the women said in an interview), Ms.

“What happened subsequently is the most mystifying part,” he added. Theroux to launch into his rhymes in what he described as “my slightly po-faced and dry English delivery.” “Can you remember any of the rap that you did?” Ms. Theroux sat down for an interview on the popular web talk show “Chicken Shop Date,” hosted by the London comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg. In February of this year, while promoting a new show, “ Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America,” Mr.

Theroux made the publicity rounds for a new project, interviewers would inevitably ask him about his hip-hop foray. The rap episode became a favorite, and whenever Mr. That might have been the end of “Jiggle Jiggle” - but “Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends” got new life in 2016, when Netflix licensed the show and started streaming it on Netflix UK. He filmed himself performing the song live on the New Orleans hip-hop station Q93, and BBC viewers witnessed his rap debut when the episode aired in the fall of 2000. He delivers the rap in an understated voice that bears traces of his Oxford education, giving an amusing lilt to the lines “My money don’t jiggle jiggle, it folds/I’d like to see you wiggle, wiggle, for sure.” Theroux is the man behind “Jiggle Jiggle,” a sensation on TikTok and YouTube, where it has been streamed hundreds of millions of times. Theroux, a 52-year-old British American documentary filmmaker with a bookish, somewhat anxious demeanor, has turned them all down, not least because, as he put it in a video interview from his London home, “I am not trying to make it as a rapper.”īut in a way, he already has: Mr.

His agent has been fielding dozens of requests for personal appearances and invitations to perform. Theroux has the feeling he is being watched, a sense confirmed when he hears a kid call out behind him: “My money don’t jiggle jiggle.” Four or five times a week these days, some old friend will contact Louis Theroux and tell him, “My daughter keeps going around the house singing your rap,” or, “My wife was exercising to your rap in her Pilates class.” Passing by a primary school, Mr.

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