Peter Kay announces return to stand-up during I'm A Celebrity

Comedian Peter Kay has announced his instrumentality to stand-up drama with his archetypal unrecorded circuit successful 12 years.

The 49-year-old has been mostly absent from the spotlight since helium cancelled his 2017 circuit owed to "unforeseen household circumstances".

Announcing his caller unrecorded dates, Kay said: "It's bully to get backmost to what I emotion doing best, stand-up comedy."

His comeback was announced during an advertisement interruption successful the bid motorboat of ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

DJ Chris Moyles, rugby subordinate Mike Tindall and vocalist Boy George were each seen entering the jungle successful Sunday's opening episode, but the erstwhile wellness caput Matt Hancock volition not look until aboriginal successful the series.

During the commercialized break, Kay was seen carrying a rolled-up carpet into a location portion confirming to adjacent fans helium volition instrumentality to stand-up drama adjacent month.

The comedian volition embark connected a caller UK arena tour, spanning from December to August 2023.

The dates volition people Kay's archetypal unrecorded circuit since 2010, erstwhile helium scored the Guinness World Record for the biggest selling stand-up circuit of each time, playing to much than 1.2 cardinal people.

The advert concludes with the fans asking Kay whether helium had yet bought his parent a bungalow - a notation the comic's erstwhile Mum Wants A Bungalow tour. Kay replies that helium had, explaining that his parent present wanted a caller carpet to spell successful it.

In a statement, the Bolton-born comic said: "It's bully to get backmost to what I emotion doing best, stand-up comedy, and if there's ever a clip radical request a laughter it's now.

"And with the outgo of surviving astatine an all-time high, summons prices are starting from £35 - the aforesaid terms they were connected my erstwhile circuit successful 2010."

Kay volition statesman his circuit connected 2 December astatine the Manchester AO Arena earlier visiting locations including Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow and Dublin.

His tally volition extremity connected 11 August astatine the Sheffield Utilita Arena. London was absent from the circuit locations listed successful the advert.

A poster for the lawsuit featured Kay holding a motion reading, "Better precocious than never" and described a summons to his shows arsenic an "ideal Christmas gift".

Kay has kept a debased illustration successful caller years. He notably returned to the signifier successful August 2021 for 2 peculiar foundation events to rise wealth for Laura Nuttall, a past 20-year-old with an assertive benignant of encephalon crab called glioblastoma multiforme.

There was besides a little instrumentality successful January 2021 erstwhile helium appeared connected BBC Radio 2 for a speech with Cat Deeley - who was filling successful aft Graham Norton near the presumption - astir his emotion of music, mixtapes and the philharmonic Mamma Mia.

He besides made a astonishment quality astatine a foundation screening of his bid Car Share successful 2018.