The Royal Variety Show 2010

The first acts confirmed for this year's Royal Variety Performance have just been announced.

This year's Royal Variety will be staged at the London Palladium on December 9th, from 5pm, and will be hosted by Michael McIntyre.

The show will be broadcast on BBC1 on Thursday 16th December at 8pm.

Acts confirmed so far include:


Take That

Cheryl Cole

N-Dubz

John Bishop

Sarah Millican

Jack Whitehall

Micky Flanagan

Spelbound

Russell Watson

The Chelsea Pensioners

The cast of Les Miserables(!)

The cast of Wizard Of Oz

Daniel Whiston

Needless to say, I don't know who many of them are. I'll be watching for Les Mis though.

When they say 'Cast of Wizard of Oz' does that mean more than just Danielle? If Michael Crawford performs that'll be worth sitting through Cheryl Cole!

Updated On: 11/15/10 at 05:30 PM

Isn't Daniel Whiston one of the pro Ice Skaters from Dancing on Ice?!

The 25th tour is now in Madrid- opens next week!

The Chelsea Pensioners have an album out, which is why they are on. Daniel is lovely Daniel from Dancing on Ice. He's the one who normally gets paired with someone from Emmerdale and he's supposed to be skating!

Colm Wilkinson leaked that he was going to be doing the show as part of a repeat of the four Valjeans they did at the O2. There is to be a show at Queen's that night, as Simon Bowman's understudy confirmed he'd be on that night, but the original press release does say there is to be a medley of songs from Les Miserables, so hopefully a few of them will get away.

Spellbound are the act that won Britain's Got Talent.

I like Jack Whitehall, very friendly when being the warm up guy at a tv show I was at.

I'm sad if Les Mis is the only show doing a slot(assuming WOZ is just Danielle), but then there isnt really anything new thats suitable, which is so sad.

Sarah Millican is a comedian and one of the few who actually makes me laugh.

There seem to be albums of the same set of songs recorded every christmas by various groups, some welsh choir, preists, soldiers, chelsea pensioners, choirboys, nuns......

I dont understand why. Other than solving an awkward relative gift problem.

Can they not get more musicals to perform? They're my favourite part of the whole thing

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