Ronnie Owen's pals filmed him imitating presenter Geoffrey Hayes and characters George the hippo and Bungle the bear as he joked about the ill worker
A CHEEKY labourer decided to publicly shame a colleague who called in sick to work with a hilarious parody of the 1970s children's show Rainbow.
Ronnie Owen's pals filmed him imitating presenter Geoffrey Hayes and characters Zippy, George the hippo and Bungle the bear as he joked about the ill worker being "f***ing sick of work".
The video was shared on Facebook by fellow road surfacing contractor Mark Wooly Davies on Thursday and has already been viewed more than two millions times.
The mobile phone footage shows Ronnie, 48, from Ruthin, North Wales, sitting in his work van in his bright orange overalls and smoking a cigarette.
It starts with the iconic Rainbow theme tune before the dad-of-five starts his three-minute sketch, acting out each of the characters with different voices.
He starts: "Hello everybody, today we're tarmacing. Tarmacing, that's what we're doing today - but we're a man down.
"That's right - we're a man down, aren't we Geoffrey?
"That's right George, we're a man down because Gegwin hasn't turned in.
"He's sick, he's poorly sick - isn't he, Geoffrey?
"He's f****** sick of work, that's what he is, sick of work!"
Ronnie, who works for Lewis and Hunter, told : "We always have a cup of tea in the morning before we start going - and one of the lads hadn't turned up.
"We always have a bit of banter with each other because you can't take life too seriously - it's a long day otherwise.
"We pull each other to bits all of the time but we're all great mates - there's no malice involved."
He added that his sick colleague had seen the video but thought it was "hilarious".
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