Fame spreads
More dates for Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais has announced another raft of London dates after selling out his Royal Albert Hall dates sold out in a matter of hours last week.The comic will now be at the 3,600-seater Hammersmith Apollo for a two-week run from September 3 to 15, ahead of the previously announced gigs.
The new tickets will go on sale from 10am next Tuesday, March 20
Gervais’s show, Fame, is being billed as the fastest selling tour in UK history, selling almost 100,000 tickets within an hour.
He has hinted this may be his last British tour, saying: ‘I’m doing a few gigs in America next month including Madison Square Gardens. I might tour America over the next few years, so I really want to go out with a bang.’
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