Billy Elliot Is Back

Friends!

'British Ballet is knackered! It's up the spout without a paddle and only you can save it, Billy,' not my words but an email I received  from of Kevin O Hare, formerly of Mullighan and O Hare click here to see Kevvy in action  and now Head Honcho of The Royal Ballet Company. It goes on, ' what with them daft arses at The Bolshy Ballet, fighting with each other and Darcey going feral with Strictly British Ballet needs a new hero or a returning old hero....' So not to put too fine a  point on it, Kevvy has begged me to come back and it is with humbleness and humilty that I have accepted Kevvy's olive branch and after 25 years will reprise my role as the bad swan ,Von Rothbart, in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
Here's me 25 years ago!

Let me tell you a little about that clip, Dafty, the bloke playing Siegfried, wasn't supposed to pull my wing off at that bit so as you can see I had to improvise, which is quite difficult when you've got 20 hefty  swans coming your way.

So I can announce today that I will be appearing at The Royal Opera House in August 2014 in Elton John's Summer Classic Selection. (We have put aside our feud!)

This will be an unreliable journal of my journey through rehearsals (I will post video of my training) to my eventual triumphant return on the stage at CoventGarden.

I will bring you up to speed with what has happened to me since the  end of the film/ musical (still running in  London's West End.) Such as:
Working with Nureyev on a piece he specially choreographed for me, 'The Dancing Pit Miner',
my spats  with Cats impresario Trevor Nunn (Still a turkey, in my opinion) and my 'moving' dance  tribute to our own England's Rose, Lady Di,  entitled, 'I was having a kebab when I heard the sad news'.

I will tell all about my long running feud with Sir Elton John and his husband, David, the trials and tribulations of bringing the musical of my life to London's West End, how I auditioned for a role in it and didn't get it!

My own TV show, 'Get your Clogs and Dance,'  my sham marriage to Myleene Klass after being in the Big Brother House.  I will bring you to the present day where I still perform nightly as the Premier Entertainment Host on SAGA's  Mediterranean   Cruise - Golden Slumbers.



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