Munya Chawawa; famous enough that he's been on Celebrity Bake Off, HIGNFY and a series of Taskmaster, but not exactly a household name. I think the fame element of the ad is supposed to be a bit tongue-in-cheek en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munya_C...

Yes, this must take place after all the Patreon streams

I love the irony of *this* being the episode that comes out immediately before Valentine's Day!

For a moment there, I thought you'd finally found the hog tags

Is that in the online revival? I've recently re-read the entire original 184-issue run and don't recall it being mentioned, unless you're referring to the Amy & Tekno headcanon - which I'm all in favour of, but don't think it was actually canonised?

I don't see the Archie similarity at all - as many others have said here, the STC/"Fleetway" interpretation of the character is much, much closer to what's being described here