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  Lee Mack to host Royal Variety Performance

  Lee Mack is host this year’s Royal Variety Performance, and the show will pay tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth.

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  BANG Showbiz

  Queen Elizabeth to be honoured at Royal Variety Performance

  Late monarch Queen Elizabeth will be honoured with a special celebration at this year's Royal Variety Performance, with Lee Mack hosting.

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  Evening Standard

  Queen to be honoured at Royal Variety Performance hosted by Lee Mack

  Comedian Lee Mack will honour the late Queen as he host’s the show next month

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  News Shopper

  Royal Variety show will honour The Queen as 2022 host and line up announced

  Some of the biggest names in showbiz will appear to honour the Queen's memory at the Royal Variety show this year.

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  PA Media: Entertainment

  Lee Mack to host Royal Variety 2022 in memory of Queen

  Gary Barlow, Ellie Goulding, George Ezra and Sam Ryder will be performing later this year.

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  The Telegraph

  What unites football and opera? Corruption, rage, deceit – and Lee Mack

  Implacable rivalries and impossible wealth; political double-dealing and sex scandals; bribery; corruption. International football was made for opera.

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  Sky News

  How opera is taking on football in Gods Of The Game: 'Every time I hear Nessun Dorma, I think about the missed penalties'

  Comedian Lee Mack is certainly no wannabe Pavarotti. In fact, he says, he had a fear that producers might make him sing when he signed up to appear in new football opera Gods Of The Game. "See Lee Mack not sing," he laughs.

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  The Telegraph

  Lee Mack, obscene chants and the opera that’s taking on football

  “We practise around the house all the time. We’re driving the kids mad,” says Lee Longworth, a Blackburn Rovers fan and – as of late – an opera singer. Longworth and his wife Angela, both 53, are two of a 40-odd strong chorus of real-life football fans who will appear in Gods of the Game, a new opera that will run at Surrey’s Grange Park Opera in October. Their parts involve, among other things, singing well-known terrace chants to the tunes of famous arias. For example “Come off it referee, tha

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  Yahoo News UK

  Huge bronze statue of comedian Bobby Ball unveiled in his adopted hometown

  A huge bronze statue of comedian Bobby Ball was unveiled at Lowther Gardens, Lytham, Lancashire, following his death in October 2020.

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  The Guardian

  Finlay Christie review – TikToker’s vindication of Gen Z

  In his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkle

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