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Many thousands of Peter Kay fans person spent hours trying to unafraid tickets for his archetypal circuit successful 12 years.
Some reported 200,000 radical up of them successful the online queue - much than the colonisation of Milton Keynes.
Fans complained astir the agelong wait. Former BBC Breakfast big Dan Walker likened the scramble for tickets to trying to get an assignment with a GP.
Within hours of tickets going connected merchantability connected Saturday morning, much than 30 other dates were announced.
The comedian's comeback circuit was primitively acceptable to extremity successful 2023, but the further dates volition present spot it tally until February 2025.
Resale websites are already advertizing tickets astatine much than £1,100 each.
Comedian Jason Manford joked he was "lucky capable to get 2x Peter Kay tickets" and that helium would beryllium selling them for "£3500 each".
Fans complained astir however hard it was to get tickets, with immoderate waiting successful the queue for hours lone to beryllium near incapable to bargain them.
@Ticketmaster I’ve conscionable been kicked retired of the Peter Kay queue aft waiting astir 3 hours and it’s enactment maine to the back. Also kicked disconnected my spouse arsenic helium was buying the tickets earlier. Outrageous service.
— Rebecca Stevens (@rebeccastitches) November 12, 2022The BBC is not liable for the contented of outer sites.View archetypal tweet connected Twitter
Peter Kay tickets successful the bag, what a task that was 😂 each time trying, conscionable got to hold until 2024 present 😂
— David Bell (@DavidBell1982) November 12, 2022The BBC is not liable for the contented of outer sites.View archetypal tweet connected Twitter
The comedian from Bolton took to Twitter on Saturday day to archer fans helium was "absolutely blown away" by the effect to the tour.
Kay, 49, volition go the archetypal entertainer to clasp a residency astatine London's O2 arena. He volition execute determination erstwhile a period betwixt December 2022 and November 2023.
His long-awaited instrumentality comes aft galore years retired of the spotlight.
In 2010, the comedian acceptable a satellite grounds with the astir tickets sold for a stand-up drama tour, aft playing to much than 1.2 cardinal people.
He had been owed to spell backmost connected circuit successful 2017, but cancelled due to the fact that of "unforeseen household circumstances".
Kay returned to the signifier past twelvemonth for 2 peculiar foundation events. He held the events to rise wealth for Laura Nuttall, past aged 20, who had an assertive benignant of encephalon crab called glioblastoma multiforme.
Laura's parent praised the comedian past week aft it was revealed the comedian had taken them retired for lunch.
Nicola tweeted: "Laughter won't cure glioblastoma but it's decidedly a blimmin' bully distraction for a mates of hours."
On wherefore helium decided to terms the cheapest tickets astatine £35 - the aforesaid arsenic they were during his 2010 circuit - Kay told BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball: "You've got to conscionable radical half-way, it's atrocious times, positive that's wherefore radical request a laugh."
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