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Comic Peter Kay made an sudden look throughout the debut episode of the brand new collection of I’m a Superstar…Get Me Out of Right here on Sunday (17 November) to make an announcement about his record-breaking tour.
Through the first commercial break within the hit ITV present, which noticed celebrities corresponding to Coleen Rooney, Alan Halsall and Tulisa Contostavlos enter the jungle, a humourous business for Kay was aired.
The advert noticed the 51-year-old comic, finest identified for his exhibits Phoenix Nights and Automobile Share, carrying a golden bathroom into his mom’s bungalow, a reference to the title of his extremely profitable “Mum Desires A Bungalow” tour in 2002.
As he’s coming into the home, which now includes a mural of Queen’s Freddie Mercury on the storage door, he’s requested by an onlooker: “Are you doing any extra exhibits?”
In response, Kay yells again: “I’ve no alternative – she desires all of it now.”
A graphic then seems, informing followers that Kay is increasing his “Higher Late Than By no means” tour, which started in 2022, to include 21 new dates.
The extra exhibits will begin in February 2025 and conclude 12 months later. It should embody his first dates at Aberdeen P&J Reside, Brighton Centre, Bournemouth Worldwide Centre and Isle of Man Villa Marina.
Kay has damaged a number of data already on the tour, together with promoting out 45 dates at London’s 02 Area and taking part in 100 exhibits at Manchester’s AO Area.
In a press release, the comic mentioned: “It’s been fantastic doing what I like most, stand-up comedy. Laughter is extra vital than ever in these difficult instances and with the price of residing nonetheless at an all-time excessive, ticket costs for the brand new dates will begin from £35.”
Tickets are set to go on sale on 23 November at 10am.
Earlier this yr, Kay was amongst a handful of acts that needed to cancel deliberate exhibits at Manchester’s new Co-Op area because the venue skilled quite a few technical difficulties, because of “not being prepared”.
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In an X/Twitter submit on, Kay wrote: “To everyone with tickets, my apologies as soon as once more however sadly the Co-op Reside nonetheless isn’t prepared and so, as but, stays untested for a large-scale viewers.
“Consequently, they’re having to reschedule my two exhibits but once more (I do know I can’t imagine it both).”
In 2023, Kay hinted that he would possibly revive his fashionable Phoenix Nights character for a brand new movie.
Kay co-created and starred within the cult British collection from 2001 to 2002, taking part in Brian Potter, the proprietor of a working males’s membership in Bolton.
The 50-year-old comedian subsequently revived the character for a Comedian Reduction particular in 2003 however has resisted requires a revival of the collection.
Writing in his forthcoming memoir TV: Large Adventures on the Small Display screen, a follow-up to his best-selling 2007 autobiography The Sound of Laughter, Kay mentioned that he may think about bringing again Potter for a characteristic movie.
“I nonetheless write down concepts. I had an thought solely in the present day of Brian getting Younger Kenny to color an infinite letter ‘H’ on the roof of the membership so he can promote they’ve received a helicopter pad,” writes Kay, in accordance with extracts revealed by The Sun.
