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Less than a month to opening night. :yahoo: Cast announcement. Cast announced for tour of Cabaret starring Will Young and Louise Redknapp The last tour of Cabaret the Musical which followed a run at the Savoy Theatre and starred Will Young as the enigmatic Emcee ended in December 2013. Bill Kenwright is mounting a new UK tour of the musical starting next month when Will Young is again to play the award winning role of the Emcee. Strictly Come Dancing finalist and ex Eternal member Louise Redknapp is playing Sally Bowles. They will be joined by Susan Penhaligon/Fraulein Schneider, Charles Hagerty/Cliff Bradshaw, Linal Haft/Herr Schultz, Nick Tizzard/Ernst Ludwig (u/s Schultz),Basienka Blake/Fraulein Kost with ensemble members Katrina Kleve (u/s Sally Bowles), Jordan Livesey (u/s Emcee), Helen Siveter (u/s Kost), Alicia Mencia, Sophie Hirst, Maria Garrett, Hannah Nicholas, Liam Marcellino, Jack Mitchell, Luke Jackson and swing Matthew Wesley Theatre Spy at 08:18

Olly Mann @OllyMann 21m @willyoung Really nice chatting to you just now whilst you drove your Merc! Best of luck with the show. Host of Radio 4's Male Room and podcasts Answer Me This!, The Modern Mann, The Media Podcast and The Week Unwrapped

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Will and Chris were on the Media Show on radio 4 today. https://twitter.com/carolewalkercw/stat ... 0234342400 Carole Walker‏Verified accoun@carolewalkercw Really enjoyed chatting about the lobby with @amolrajanBBC on Media Show .. star struck to be in studio with Will Young! Clean shaven possibly in rehearsals for Cabaret.

Tweets from Will. Will Young @willyoung 18m And the new episode! Listen now to the new episode of Homo Sapiens with @PeterTatchell. He is beyond inspiring. acast.com/homosapiens/s0… Will Young @willyoung 19m Question of the day for #homospapiens who was your first crush?

Tweets from Will. Will Young @willyoung 18m And the new episode! Listen now to the new episode of Homo Sapiens with @PeterTatchell. He is beyond inspiring. acast.com/homosapiens/s0… Will Young @willyoung 19m Question of the day for #homospapiens who was your first crush?

Episode 5 with Peter Tatchell up now.

Will and Chris will be pleased.They mentioned their top shows to appear on were here and Woman's Hour. https://twitter.com/Vinny_LBC/status/898178120959762434 VincwMent McAviney‏Verified account @Vinny_LBC @willyoung Hi Will, listening to #homosapienspodcast, we'd love to have you both on @LBC, could you follow to DM to arrange, thanks x

https://twitter.com/RossAdams77/status/ ... 0952545280 Ross Adams@RossAdams77 Great coverage in today's @MetroUK @willyoung and Chris, congrats!

Will has signed with a new pr company. http://murraychalmers.com/murray-chalmers-...ew-client-wins/ Following MCPR’s newly implemented service led approach, including Personal PR, social media advisory and more, new multi-genre clients include Will Young (multiple projects), E4’s Celebs Go Dating’s dating expert Eden Blackman, and Trevor Horn.

This dog has got me through 5 years of the most hideous illness and helped me get well again . Thank you Esme xxx @SoiDogPhuket rescue a dog

The third episode with Rebecca Root is my favourite so far. :D

Thanks Ros. I agree another great listen. It was lovely to hear how enthusiastic and ambitious Chris and Will are about this project on 5 live. I hope it takes off for them.

i newspaper‏Verified account @theipaper @WillYoung: The word ‘gay’ should not be used as a derogatory term http://trib.al/qcPptLN

Podcast of the week in the Guardian & Radio Times. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... f-the-week http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-07- ... mo-sapiens

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Will Young reveals why he scrapped a gay kiss from his All Time Love video 11:06 26th July 2017 by Ifan Llewelyn Comments CELEBS Press Will Young has opened up about being an out gay man in the music industry. In the first episode of his new podcast Homo Sapien with Chris Sweeney, available for free on iTunes now, the pop star discusses how he was dissuaded from doing an on-screen gay kiss, and dancing with a male mannequin in a music video. He said: “I remember years ago, I’d probably left T4 or something like that, and was off to a premiere, it was for the song All Time Love and they said, ‘What do you feel about kissing a man on the lips in the video?’. “I actually rang up my mum and dad, and they were both like ‘Yeah, f*** it, do it’. But I didn’t do it, everyone agreed no, but actually that was only because I was thinking of my career. “Do the maths – how many people want to see a man kiss a man, in comparison to how many people don’t? More people don’t. But now I slightly regret it.” Related: This is what happened when Will Young first went on Grindr… He then went on to talk about a conversation he had with his record label about him dancing with a male mannequin in the music video for Let It Go… “I danced with a male mannequin and the record company started saying things, trying to get around the fact that they couldn’t say ‘We shouldn’t have this in the video’, because that would seem too homophobic,” he recalled. “I think one of the marketing guys, I won’t name him, but I’ll put it on Twitter, he said ‘Oh well I just think it would be a reflection of the downward turn of Will’s career’. “Basically what he wanted to say was ‘He’ll lose records by dancing with a male mannequin’, and to be honest I probably have done. “ Also in the first episode, the pair interviewed journalist Owen Jones, who opened up about his own experiences, being in love with his best-friend who was a Christian Fundamentalist, and of coming out of the closet. “I just didn’t want to be gay, that’s the brutal truth of it,” he said. “I convinced myself I was bisexual. Bi now, gay later. It’s terrible for genuine bisexuals that, people like me that… people like me who have problems. “The reason I came out was because I met this guy, who was captain of the rowing team, and when I started going out with him there was a logical ‘Might was well come out now I suppose’.” Will and Chris’ podcast is available to listen on iTunes now, with new episodes released weekly. For more information visit homosapienspodcast.com http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/news/latest/8102...ime-love-video/

Sitting at 4 in the Podcast Chart. Will and Chris must be delighted. :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/radio/2017/07/24/Copyright-Laura-Lewis-Q4A5966-3-low-res-large_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqVnGZDHLVbaDWtLqzwQh5-VXf650NyGCxIUSN5QkxoTQ.jpg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/radio/2017/07/24/Copyright-Laura-Lewis-Q4A6042-3-low-res-xlarge_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq1N-0BbrGahnullJmqzE3fwWBR3W8i_BpdASmJCKKq2U.jpg Telegraph Culture Radio Podcasts Will Young on his new LGBT podcast Homo Sapiens: 'It's inspired by Woman's Hour' Pop star Will Young with film director Chris Sweeney CREDIT: LAURA LEWIS Dylan Jones 25 JULY 2017 • 7:00AM Woman’s Hour is one of Radio’s most well-respected, best-loved institutions, with an army of devoted fans - among them many men, including pop star Will Young and film director Chris Sweeney. However it was listening to their favourite show that the pair, best friends since Sweeney directed a video for Young, had an epiphany: why didn’t a similar type of show exist for LGBT people? And so their new podcast Homo Sapiens was born: launching today, it aims to provide the same kind of therapeutic but incisive discussion that Jenni Murray, Jane Garvey et al do. “We’re not doing an LGBT Woman’s Hour, but that’s where the idea spawned from,” says Young, who has been a representative of queerness in the mainstream ever since he came out following his victory on Pop Idol in 2001. “There isn’t a space that we felt was really fulfilling the role of talking to people from an LGBT perspective, and even more simply – two gay guys in their thirties who want to chat to people who we relate to.” Will Young As their podcast launches, Young is very clear about what they want to achieve with it. “Two words,” he says quickly “Michelle Obama. She’s the ultimate really.” Though he is moving into unchartered territory: “I didn’t even know what podcasts were at first though,” he muses. “I kept on saying ‘iPod.’ Such jokey casualness belies the seriousness of the project at heart, however. Interviewees have been carefully chosen to reflect the spectrum of LGBT experience, as Sweeney is at pains to point out. Some of the names on the roster for the first series include journalist Owen Jones, screenwriter Russell T Davies, Nigerian activist Bisi Alimi, singer-songwriter John Grant and transgender actress Rebecca Root. 
“We wanted it to be people who had done something progressive or transgressive for the LGBT+ community,” says Sweeney. “Bisi Alimi, for example, has done extraordinary stuff. And we can talk about the issues around that. But then Bisi’s also an extraordinary person. So we can talk to him, as a person, and about his life as well as his activism.” Screenwriter Russell T Davies Screenwriter Russell T Davies CREDIT: JAY WILLIAMS Indeed, Young says the emphasis is on conversation, rather than interviewing. “We’re not grilling people,” says Will. “Neither of us want to push people on uncomfortable topics. So it’s just an environment for people to chat. And not necessarily about sensational things. We’re not looking for headlines like ‘oh my god, ‘John Grant said this’ or ‘Owen Jones’ said this.’” “Actually, when Chris and I interviewed Owen [Jones], he talked about coming out as gay, and that was interesting because it was something we could all identify with.” “Everyone knows loads about Owen’s political opinions,” says Chris. “But I don’t think Owen ever really talks about himself. And it was really nice to talk to him in a much more informal way. Someone who’s so staunch with their beliefs, and works really hard at getting people to change their opinions and stuff…where does that come from? What was the six-year-old version of that person like?” One of the most intriguing conversations Will and Chris had was with Rebecca Root, one of Britain’s first ever openly trans actors. Last year she shot into the limelight after starring in critically-acclaimed BBC comedy/drama Boy Meets Girl. She’s also been making waves in cinema, with several projects in the pipeline, including The Sisters Brothers, a high-budget Hollywood western, alongside John C Reilly and Jake Gyllenhaal slated for release next year. “When we spoke to Rebecca Root, we were talking about the role she’d just done in Boy Meets Girl, and the film with Jake Gyllenhaal,” says Sweeney. “And then that conversation moved on to ‘do you feel a responsibility to represent the trans community in acting?’ And she was saying ‘yes and no - actually I just want to be an actress. But I’m aware that I’m also at the vanguard of trans people being cast in things.’” “So we learned from her that you kind of have to represent in some ways. Because if there’s a kid out there who’s trans, and is looking to you for guidance and what to do next, and wants to be an actress, you do have that responsibility. If they Google it and Rebecca comes up, it’ll be her who they look to. And that’s just really fascinating. Because she’s done all this work, it’s moved her own career forward, and she can now be cast in things just as a woman, and no-one talks about the fact that she’s trans. Which is amazing because it means now other people can follow.” But it’s clear that Will and Chris also want the podcast to be less about the political side of LGBT issues, and more about the personal side. They want to explore what makes their subjects tick. “I think there’s something quite modern about NOT dwelling on someone’s LGBTness as the reason we’re talking to them,” says Chris. “Yes!” agrees Will. “Having had fifteen years of ‘gay pop star Will Young!’ or ‘middle class Will Young’ or ‘posh Will Young’ – obviously people want to put you in a box – but I think it’s much more interesting to just find out about the person. If we move in to discuss certain issues then great. But it’s coming from someone as a person rather than as a number.” Homo Sapiens is out now. Listen at homosapienspodcast.com http://homosapienspodcast.com

Hope you enjoy the evening. I know tickets sold out very quickly.

Taken at Manchester airport, probably flying home from Pitch Battle. hh 10m It was a delight to meet @willyoung this morning and great to see he is Joining Jack @alljoinjack thanks for your support, safe travels x

Will was the only judge that didn'make it all about him and allowed his group to shine. Your Game was the perfect song choice and the Leeds Contemporary Singers worthy winners. :cheer: UtY1xf3STfs