Eurovision star Mike Nolan, 70, sets his sights on Strictly 2025 after revealing why he quit the iconic 80s pop group
Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after stepping back from the iconic Eurovision troupe he led for 43 years.
The 70-year-old Bucks Fizz star, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, announced earlier this year that he had made the decision to leave the group.
Despite hanging up his mic, Mike is still making all the moves as he shares his exciting future plans.
He told it The sun: ‘I’d like Strictly Come Dancing because we’re a dance singing group that does routines, but they’re just routines.
‘Good (ballroom) dancing is really hard work and requires practice to make it perfect.
“I’ve spoken to my agent and am watching this space.”
Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after stepping back from the iconic Eurovision troupe he led for 43 years
The 70-year-old Bucks Fizz star, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, announced earlier this year that he had made the decision to leave the group.
Mike hopes to be part of the 2025 line-up for Strictly (pictured by presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly)
Earlier this year, Mike revealed the real reason why he is leaving the band after 43 years.
When presenter Michael Ball joined his BBC Radio 2 show in May, the star first announced he was leaving, saying: ‘I’m leaving, it’s for personal reasons. I have decided to go, to leave.
‘I thought about it for a long time and I thought: ‘this is the time to do it’. We’ve been together for 43 years.’
The Fizz is a British pop music group formed in 2004 as a spin-off from the original group, Bucks Fizz. The core of the group consists of Cheryl Baker, 70, Mike and Jay Aston, 63.
And The Fizz appeared on Good Morning Britain, where Mike explained why he’s leaving.
Mike said: ‘It’s actually personal reasons why I’m leaving, but I was also fed up with the amount of traveling you have to do.
‘Everyone has to travel, but because I can’t drive anymore I have to get in a taxi, get on a train, get on another train, meet the band, do the gig, spend the night, two trains back, another taxi and forty years of it …’
The rest of the band then revealed that Mike had been talking about leaving for the past three years, joking, “Just leave, for God’s sake!”
The Fizz performs the Eurovision Song Contest-winning song Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz
Mike revealed his reason for leaving the band, saying: ‘It’s actually personal reasons why I’m leaving, but I was also fed up with the amount of traveling you have to do’
However, they then sweetly added, “Of course it won’t be the same.”
The band also announced that they have plans to replace him and will hold a farewell concert before Mike leaves.
Bucks Fizz rose to stardom in the 1980s after winning the historic Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with the song Making Your Mind Up.
Their smash hit catapulted to number 1 in the UK charts and sold four million copies worldwide.
The group was originally formed solely for the competition and consisted of singers Mike, Bobby G, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston.
In 2004, a spin-off group from the band as The Fizz was formed after Bobby G, 70, won a lawsuit that prevented his former bandmates from performing under the name The Original Bucks Fizz.
The other three band members are said to be ‘extremely disappointed’ by the ruling, which took place in August 2011 after a long legal battle.
The judge ruled in favor of Bobby on the grounds that since his wife (Heidi Manton, also a member of his group) owned the name Bucks Fizz, the use of the name The Original Bucks Fizz therefore constituted an impediment to their trademark.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was won by Nemo with The Code, an operatic ode to the singer’s journey to embracing his non-gender identity.