Peter Kay has introduced his extremely anticipated return to stand-up comedy along with his first stay tour in over a decade.
The comic, 49, who has been taking time away from the general public eye over the past 4 years, will embark on a large enviornment tour throughout the UK from December till August 2023. This would be the comedian's first stay tour since 2010, the place he scored the Guinness World Report for the most important promoting run of all time, taking part in to greater than 1.2 million folks.
His comeback was introduced throughout an commercial break within the collection launch of I am A Superstar... Get Me Out Of Right here! on ITV. Peter will probably be performing two dates in Scotland on Might 5 and Might 6, 2023 on the OVO Hydro in Glasgow.
He stated: "It is good to get again to what I really like doing greatest, stand-up comedy, and if there's ever a time folks want amusing it is now. And with the price of dwelling at an all-time excessive, ticket costs are ranging from £35 - the identical worth they have been on my earlier tour in 2010."
Kay will start his tour on December 2 on the Manchester AO Area earlier than visiting places together with Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow and Dublin. His run will finish on August 11 2023 on the Sheffield Utilita Area.
Following the announcement, Kay's official web site appeared to crash briefly beneath elevated on-line visitors. A poster for the occasion featured Kay holding an indication studying, "Higher late than by no means" and described a ticket to his reveals as an "supreme Christmas present".
Kay, from Bolton, has been largely out of the highlight in recent times. That is nice information for followers after the star beforehand cancelled his tour in December 2017, citing "unexpected household circumstances".
Since then he has stored a comparatively low profile, though had returned to the highlight earlier this 12 months for a collection of Dance for Life charity gigs. He returned to the stage in August 2021 for 2 particular charity occasions to boost cash for Laura Nuttall, a then 20-year-old with an aggressive kind of mind most cancers known as glioblastoma multiforme.
There was additionally a short return in January 2021 when he appeared on BBC Radio 2 to talk to Cat Deeley - who was filling in after Graham Norton left the station - about his love of music, mixtapes and the musical Mamma Mia.
He additionally made a shock look at a charity screening of his collection Automotive Share in 2018. Over the previous couple of years, Kay has delighted followers along with his hit Bafta-winning TV collection Automotive Share and stand-up routines.
Tickets go on sale November 12 at 10am.
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