TV star Rylan Clark made an adult discovery while visiting the Amazon warehouse in Dartford.
The Radio 2 presenter visited the facilities this week to learn how the center works.
Rylan visits the Amazon warehouse
The sprawling £205million complex, which opened last year, has a footprint of around 547,000 square feet – roughly the size of six and a half football pitches.
It is based on the disused site of the former Littlebrook Power Station next to the Dartford Crossing.
In a video shared on Rylan’s Instagram page, he shows visitors around the site as he helps staff pack orders, explores robotics, chats with workers and learns what their job entails.
The former X Factor contestant joined packer Daniel Gomes at his station when the first object to arrive on the conveyor belt was a sex toy.
Daniel – who is also a professional DJ and psychology student – said: “Take a whole inventory and that’s what comes up. A hilarious moment as it of course brought out Rylan’s mischievous sense of humor. He had let me down.”
As he speaks in the video, Rylan can be seen laughing and pointing the adult item at the camera. He said: “That just made my day.”
Daniel added: “At my station, one of the larger boxes is stored near the ground, something I would normally bend over to collect.
“When Rylan was told to pack, he knelt on the warehouse floor and grabbed the box. Without hesitation or hesitation, he jumped right in.”
Rylan has worked with Amazon for the past few years but admitted he had never been to a fulfillment center before.
Priyanka Bernard, General Manager of the site, said: “It’s always a pleasure showing clients what’s going on behind the scenes, but it’s not every day that a celebrity walks through our doors.
“The entire team was very excited to welcome Rylan and show him what we do, the technology we use and teach him how to stow, pick and pack customer orders.
“Rylan was a brilliant sport and made the team laugh a lot and he is always welcome back to our fulfillment center.”
In the video, the TV personality can also be seen exploring the rooftop, which features one of the largest solar panel installations – part of the company’s commitment to be carbon neutral across its entire business by 2040.
The site is powered entirely by electricity generated by the panels, and the online retailer says it will feed excess energy back into the national grid.
Bianca Gerrard, who joined as stevedores last August, said: “I found the experience surreal, seeing Rylan on my station as stevedores was wild. He was great, so happy to talk to all of us and get to know as much as he could.
“I even showed him a selfie of us 10 years ago when I met him, which he found hilarious.
“This has definitely been my favorite moment of working at Amazon so far.”
Russell Brooks, Amnesty Responder, added: “Rylan was really interested in robotics and asked a lot of questions about how the body armor works. It was a pleasure explaining what and how we do things and what a top guy he seemed to be.”
And this isn’t the first time Rylan has been helping out at a Kent company. In 2019, he visited McDonald’s in Orbital Park, Ashford helped in the kitchen, at the registers and with table service.
At the end of his visit to Dartford’s Amazon, Rylan said: “It’s been such a pleasure to see this all happen. The next time you place an order on Amazon, you now know how it all works.”