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Due to popular demand and successful covid vaccinations, Jenny Eclair has added an extra London date to her brand new stand-up tour SIXTY! (FFS!). Taking place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London’s Southbank Centre on 11th February 2022, this follows her first London date at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 28th September 2021. Having turned 60 back in March 2020, just before the country went into the first lockdown, Jenny can now finally look forward to celebrating this overdue milestone with her fans come the autumn with the tour kicking off at Leicester Y Theatre on 2ndSeptember and ending at Newbury Corn Exchange on 17th February 2022. Tickets for the Southbank Centre are on sale Friday 25th June at 10am from jennyeclair.com.
Having hit 60 (but still a year younger than Madonna), Jenny Eclair AKA ‘The Face of Vagisan’ confronts a new decade of decrepitude. Now that it takes 20 minutes of scrolling down to find her DOB when she’s filling in forms online, should she celebrate or crawl into a hole? What will her 60’s hold for this 1960’s babe and is it a legal requirement to buy Nordic walking poles?
Jenny was the first woman to win the prestigious Perrier Award and this latest tour follows her previous sell-out show, How To be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane), which toured the UK and had a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
She has many TV and radio credits to her name, most recently hosting a brand new series of Drawers Off (Channel 4) in the spring and Craftivism (BBC Four) back in February. Other TV credits include the Grumpy Old Women series (BBC Two), The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer (Channel 4), Loose Women (ITV), Splash (ITV) and I’m a Celebrity (ITV). Her radio series of monologues Little Lifetimes (BBC Radio 4) has recently been commissioned for a seventh series. West End theatre credits include Steaming, Mum’s the Word and both Grumpy Old Women Live and Chin Up Britain, co-written by Eclair and Holder.
She currently co-hosts the Older and Wider podcast with Grumpy Old Women producer Judith Holder, having written the internationally successful Grumpy Old Women Live stage shows together.
Her brand new book - Older and Wider, A Survivor’s Guide to the Menopause made The Sunday Times Best Sellers List in the summer of 2020 and is now out in paperback. Jenny is also a Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Camberwell Beauty, Having a Lovely Time and Life, Death and Vanilla Slices, as well as the Richard and Judy bestseller, Moving, the short story collection, Listening In and her latest novel Inheritance.
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