**Announced** Joanna Lumley announces date for It’s All About Me Tour at Royal Concert Hall Nottingham 19 October 2018

The legendary Joanna Lumley will embark on her first-ever live tour, IT’S ALL ABOUT ME, in autumn 2018. Joanna will take to the road for the 30 date tour on 6 October at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall and then perform at major theatres in Ireland and across the UK, before finishing in Aylesbury on 10 November. Tickets will go on sale on Friday 1st December at 10am.

Joanna will take audiences through her hilarious and interesting adventures from her incredible career spanning more than four decades, recounting some never heard before stories. She will also be joined on stage by friend and producer Clive Tulloh, who will put to Joanna questions from the audience that they’ve always wanted to ask, making the show a unique and hilarious night to remember.

On announcing It’s All About Me, Joanna said: “The thought of this tour next year, travelling across the British Isles and Ireland, has completely taken over my waking hours. It’s utterly thrilling to start planning the stories I can tell, and the rapture (and gratitude, to be fair) with which I shall greet the audiences. Nothing like this has come my way before, and I may have to be dragged off with a hook at the end of each show. Oh people! This is especially for you from me, with masses of love. I think it will be fabulous.”

Joanna Lumley icon, national treasure, activist, comedy actress and all-round top girl is barely off our TV screens and appears to have been a permanent fixture in our sitting rooms since she burst onto our screens as Purdey in the New Avengers in 1976. Now in a nationwide tour, she will take us through the random journey that started in London in the swinging 60’s. Beginning as Jean Muir’s house model and muse, progressing to becoming a full-blown photographic model, featuring in knitting patterns, mini-skirts, toothpaste commercials and the occasional front cover.

From there Joanna will share her stories of her acting career that includes Coronation Street, On the Buses, Dracula and as a brainwashed Bond Girl in Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Joanna’s breakthrough role was as Purdey, a part for which over 800 girls auditioned. Purdey propelled her to instant fame and created one of the “must-have” hairstyles of the 1970s – the Purdey bob. She became a pin-up figure for a generation of British males who grew up watching her as the high-kicking action girl.

Alongside iconic hairstyles Joanna started to develop a nice sideline as adventurer and activist; popping up all over the globe she was often seen gasping at the Northern Lights, turning her bra into espadrilles and finding the source of the Nile.

Then as Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous, she became a degenerate role-model for a generation. Winning two BAFTAs, Joanna emerged as one of the best comedy actresses of her generation. For 25 years the adventures of Patsy and Edina have sporadically lurched across our screens culminating in AbFab The Movie in 2016.

This intimate night with Joanna tells some of these tales and more as we gallop through almost 50 years in this business we call show.

Clive Tulloh

Clive Tulloh first met Joanna on the set of the Full Wax in 1991 and has barely let her out of his sight since. As Producer of Girl Friday in 1994 he was personally responsible for her appalling living conditions and meagre diet. It was this experience that cemented their friendship. Since then they have made over 20 hours of documentary television together, including the recent adventures to India, Japan and the Trans-Siberian Railroad. He is sometimes allowed to work with other people and won a BAFTA (three less than Joanna) with Ross Kemp and if you have a very good memory you will remember Ruby Wax shouting at him while they pursued the likes of Pamela Anderson and Imelda Marcos in Ruby Wax Meets.

JOANNA LUMLEY: ‘IT’S ALL ABOUT ME’ TOUR 2018

Day	Date	Venue
Saturday	06/10/2018	Belfast Waterfront Hall
Sunday	07/10/2018	Dublin Bord Gais Theatre
Tuesday	09/10/2018	Birmingham Symphony Hall
Wednesday	10/10/2018	Newcastle Gateshead Theatre
Thursday	11/10/2018	Glasgow SEC Armadillo
Friday	12/10/2018	Edinburgh EICC
Saturday	13/10/2018	Blackpool Opera House
Sunday	14/10/2018	Salford The Lowry
Wednesday	17/10/2018	Oxford New Theatre
Thursday	18/10/2018	Bristol Hippodrome
Friday	19/10/2018	Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Saturday	20/10/2018	Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre
Sunday	21/10/2018	Cambridge Corn Exchange
Monday	22/10/2018	Ipswich Regent Theatre
Wednesday	24/10/2018	Sheffield City Hall
Thursday	25/10/2018	Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Friday	26/10/2018	Leeds First Direct Arena
Saturday	27/10/2018	Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Sunday	28/10/2018	York Barbican
Monday	29/10/2018	London Palladium
Wednesday	31/10/2018	Plymouth Pavilions
Thursday	01/11/2018	Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
Friday	02/11/2018	Southampton 02 Guild Hall
Saturday	03/11/2018	Bournemouth BIC
Sunday	04/11/2018	Portsmouth Guild Hall
Tuesday	06/11/2018	Leicester De Montfort Hall
Wednesday	07/11/2018	Blackburn King Georges Hall
Thursday	08/11/2018	Brighton Dome
Friday	09/11/2018	Northampton Derngate Theatre
Saturday	10/11/2018	Aylesbury Waterside Theatre