Peter Kay delighted followers this week with a model new tour announcement after being compelled to reschedule nights of his ongoing UK tour resulting from a routine surgical procedure.

The Bolton comic, 52, introduced his long-awaited comeback tour in 2022 after 12 years and has been touring throughout the UK constantly since.

Regardless of his Higher Late Than By no means tour set to finish subsequent yr, it received’t be the final followers see of Kay, with a brand new set of dates set for 2026, with earnings going to 12 totally different most cancers charities.

It comes after Kay revealed that two exhibits in Nottingham can be moved from October to December resulting from a kidney surgical procedure.

Regardless of the joy over the tour announcement, Kay’s announcement on The One Present that this would be the ‘final lot of exhibits’ has led some followers to imagine this may very well be his remaining tour or that he may retreat from the highlight as soon as extra.

Why did Peter Kay step out of the highlight?

The comic’s five-year break from the highlight started in 2017, when his Have Gags, Will Journey tour was cancelled.

In a press release on the time, he stated: ‘Resulting from unexpected household circumstances, I deeply remorse that I’m having to cancel all of my upcoming work tasks.

‘This sadly contains my upcoming stand-up tour, Dance For Life exhibits, and any excellent stay work commitments.

‘My sincerest apologies. This resolution has not been taken flippantly, and I’m certain you’ll perceive my household should all the time come first.

‘I’ve all the time endeavoured to guard my household’s privateness from the media. I hope that the media and the general public will proceed to respect our privateness at the moment. As soon as once more, I’m very sorry.’

Earlier than this tour, he had final hit the stage in 2010 together with his world record-breaking The Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour…Now On Tour, which performed to greater than 1.2million folks.

In 2018, Kay returned to social media to announce a charity screening of Peter Kay’s Automobile Share to boost cash for The Lily Basis earlier than as soon as once more disappearing.

A yr later, he made a shock look at a screening of Automobile Share at Blackpool Opera Home.

In August 2022, he delighted followers on the Dance For Life present in Liverpool for Most cancers Analysis.

Then, he started gearing as much as return to the stage correctly by testing new materials on followers at a sequence of shock gigs across the nation.

When did he announce his comeback tour?

Followers have been despatched into meltdown in November 2022 when Kay introduced his return to stand-up comedy with his first tour in 12 years.

He shared particulars of the 100-date Higher Late Than By no means tour, which initially started in December 2022.

Following the primary announcement, tickets bought out in minutes, resulting in extra dates being added time and again resulting from standard demand.

Since then, he has been touring constantly and holds the excellence of being the one artist on this planet to have a residency at The O2.

His month-to-month appearances on the 20,000-seat enviornment have been credited with redefining the dimensions and ambition of stand-up comedy on a worldwide stage.

Kay has additionally performed 100 exhibits on the AO Enviornment in Manchester and has damaged attendance and efficiency information.

The comic was moved to tears when he first returned to the stage in Manchester after greater than a decade, receiving rapturous applause from the viewers.

‘Aw, you’ll have me in bits,’ the loveable Automobile Share star stated.

‘Pretty Manchester, you made me cry. I can’t imagine I cried. The place did it come from, all that emotion?’

To try to hold ticket costs low amid the price of dwelling disaster, Kay stored costs ranging from £35, as they’d have been when the tour was initially introduced in 2017.

‘It’s good to get again to what I really like doing finest, stand-up comedy, and if there’s ever a time folks want amusing, it’s now,’ he stated on the time.

‘And with the price of dwelling at an all-time excessive, ticket costs are ranging from £35. The identical value they have been on my earlier tour in 2010.’

Is that this Peter Kay’s remaining tour?

Kay has not introduced any plans to hold up his microphone simply but, however his newest tour is coming to an finish.

Now coming into its fourth yr, the Higher Late Than By no means tour will wrap up subsequent yr with some further particular charity exhibits.

Showing on The One Present alongside Insurgent Wilson and Kiefer Sutherland on the pink couch, he stated: ‘It’s ending subsequent yr, and I’m saying the final lot of exhibits, however all earnings are going to most cancers charities.

‘They’re all 12 most cancers charities, that are Youngsters with Most cancers, UK Teenage Most cancers Belief, Kidney Most cancers UK, Blood Most cancers UK, Bowel Most cancers UK, Prostate UK.’

He continued: ‘Sadly, everyone is aware of somebody who’s been affected on that listing, and I simply hope folks assist it. 

‘Come to the exhibits. That’s why I’m right here. You don’t even have to love me to return. It goes past that. That is about supporting these charities. Will probably be beautiful.

‘If it’s not humorous, you get your a reimbursement,’ he joked to BBC One viewers, earlier than including: ‘You don’t.’

Interesting to those that are on the lookout for one thing for a beloved one this yr, Kay concluded: ‘I hope you’ll come and do it. It’s a very good Christmas present and all. Don’t neglect Christmas.’

Addressing the thought of retiring on Scott Mills’ BBC Radio 2 present, he stated: ‘I all the time beloved making folks comfortable, I nonetheless do… it seems like a cliché, but it surely’s a vocation. I knew I appreciated making folks snicker, however there’s no probability I’ll ever be capable of do this as a dwelling.

‘These actually are the final dates.’

When he was cheekily in comparison with Dancing On Ice stars Torvill and Dean, he joked: ‘Oh, I’m not that dangerous. They’ve retired about 10 occasions!’

On Capital Breakfast, he hinted at what may come subsequent after the tour involves an finish.

‘I’ve written a movie of Phoenix Nights, and it’s written, and it’s performed, however I’m ready for the de-ageing course of to return into fruition, as a result of the storyline includes a number of flashbacks to the previous, and I don’t wanna be utilizing actually dangerous make-up to make folks look younger.

‘I’m severe; when the tour is completed, I’ve been interested by it. I’ve been wanting on the capabilities of de-ageing know-how. They used it on that movie, The Irishman, however that’s seven years previous, so now you’ll be able to in all probability do it on an app.’

The tickets for Kay’s further exhibits will go on sale this Sunday at 10am, with additional particulars right here.

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