Peter Wright has to sport his signature style away from the oche (Image: Getty)
Two-time world champion never fails to put on a show. Aided appearance-wise by his wife Joanne, the 54-year-old has been sending crowds into frenzies for years, culminating in a pair of Sid Waddell trophies in 2020 and 2022.
Snakebite enters the fray to Pitbull’s fan-favourite dance track ‘Don’t Stop the Party’ and, as part of a now legendary routine, glides across the stage egging on those cheering his name and singing along.
During the festivities, Wright is almost always seen styling his signature mohawk, often coloured to match his chosen attire and partnered with a gemstone-laden image of a snake’s head – a nod to his nickname. However, away from the oche, his look is quite different.
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In order to maintain his much-beloved mohawk, Wright does have to keep the hairstyle when he isn’t throwing – though it remains his normal shade of grey. They are, to the surprise of few, no sequins or jewels making an appearance away from the big stage either.
In fact, Wright posed a very different, much more no-nonsense threat during his darting infancy. In 1995, competing at the BDO World Darts Championships – decades before he would lift a PDC world title – Wright faced off against eventual champion Richie Burnett, sporting an entirely different look altogether.
With a more conventional head of hair, Wright would lose 3-1. Yet, returning to the sport after a lengthy hiatus in 2005, Snakebite would kick on, in part thanks to not just his newfound look but his wife, who makes the transformation possible.
“It takes about two hours every day after practice in my chilling out time. I sit there chilling, and my wife Jo does my hair,” Wright told the in 2013.
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“It’s down to my daughter because she’s the one who has all different colour hair and I thought, ‘I’ll try that’. No other dart players have tried it and it just stuck. I class it as going to war with my war paint on, ready for battle.”
This year, Wright enters the World Darts Championship in a rut. The 54-year-old failed to defend the ranking money he won for his previous Ally Pally exploits, meaning he’s dropped to World No. 17 and will face a much tougher draw.
First up for the out-of-sorts Wright – who lost every one of his Grand Slam group games last month and finished bottom of the in May – is Wesley Plaisier on Tuesday (17 December), who progressed through his first-round tie to clash with Snakebite.
Should the Scottish representative progress, he’ll be faced with a much more challenging task in Jermaine Wattimena, having also been drawn in the same quarter as reigning world champion Luke Humphries.