Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after stepping away from the iconic Eurovision group he led for 43 years.
The Bucks Fizz star, 70, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, revealed he made the decision to leave the group earlier this year.
Despite hanging up the mic, Mike still has all the moves as he shares his exciting future plans.
he said the sun: ‘I’d like Strictly Come Dancing because we’re a vocal dance group that does routines, but they’re just routines.
‘Proper (ballroom) dancing is now really hard work that requires practice to achieve perfection.
“I’ve spoken to my agent and I’m watching this space.”
Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after stepping away from the iconic Eurovision group he led for 43 years.
The Bucks Fizz star, 70, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, revealed he made the decision to leave the group earlier this year.
Earlier this year, Mike revealed the real reason he’s leaving the band after 43 years.
Joining presenter Michael Ball on his BBC Radio 2 show in May, the star first announced she was leaving, saying: “I’m going to leave, it’s for personal reasons.” I have decided to leave, leave.
“I’ve been thinking about it for a long, long time and I just thought, ‘this is the time to do it.'” We’ve been together for 43 years.’
The Fizz are a British pop music group formed in 2004 as a spin-off of the original group, Bucks Fizz. The core of the group is made up of Cheryl Baker, 70, and Mike and Jay Aston, 63.
And The Fizz appeared on Good Morning Britain, where Mike explained why he is leaving.
Mike said: “Actually, I’m leaving for personal reasons, but I was also getting fed up with the amount of traveling you have to do.”
“Everyone has to travel, but since I can’t drive anymore, I have to get in a taxi, a train, another train, meet the band, do the concert, 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 last three years as they joked: ‘Just leave, for God’s sake!’
The Fizz performs Bucks Fizz’s Eurovision Song Contest winning song, Making Your Mind Up
Revealing his reason for leaving the band, Mike said: “It’s actually personal reasons that left me, but I was also getting fed up with the amount of traveling you have to do.”
But then they added sweetly, “Of course, it won’t be the same.”
The band also revealed that they have plans to replace him and will hold a farewell concert before Mike’s departure.
Bucks Fizz rose to stardom in the 1980s after winning the historic Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up in 1981.
Their song catapulted to number one on the UK charts and sold four million copies worldwide.
The group was originally formed solely for the contest and consisted of vocalists Mike, Bobby G, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston.
In 2004, a spin-off group of the band was formed as The Fizz after 70-year-old Bobby G won a court case preventing his former bandmates from performing under the name The Original Bucks Fizz.
The three remaining colleagues were said to be “extremely disappointed” by the ruling, which came in August 2011 after a lengthy legal battle.
The judge ruled in favor of Bobby on the basis that since his wife (Heidi Manton, also a member of his group) owned the name Bucks Fizz, use of the name The Original Bucks Fizz was therefore an impediment to his trademark. .