Here Come The Boys
Following on from the previous week’s Divas II, which saw performances from some of the biggest female names in music, this week it’s the turn of the boys in ITV1’s spectacular television event Here Come The Boys. Featuring star turns from some of the world’s best loved male artists, including Sir Tom Jones, Seal, Will Young, Boyzone, Scouting For Girls and Enrique Iglesias, Here Come The Boys will be presented by the glamorous Holly Willoughby.
Catching up with Holly during rehearsals, she said, with a cheeky smile: “I am the only female and I get to share the stage with loads of gorgeous men.”
Talking about the inspiration behind the event Holly said: “Cancer charities do great things and testicular cancer is really important. The moment a man is ill they just clam up and don’t say anything, when actually they spend most of their days with hands down their pants anyway so why don’t they do something about it?”
In this musical spectacular, viewers will be treated to classics such as Sir Tom Jones’s It’s Not Unusual and one of his new songs If He Should Ever Leave You.
Spanish heartthrob Enrique Iglesias shows viewers why Hero is his biggest selling single, whilst Seal admits to still getting a buzz from performing. “Yes, that’s why I do it, that’s the thrill of it.” He then goes on to perform a cover of the James Brown soul classic, It’s A Man’s World.
“It’s pretty honourable,” Boyzone say about sharing the stage with icons like Sir Tom Jones before revealing that they will be going “into the studio to put some ideas down early next year”.
Indie pop band Scouting for Girls are clearly a little in awe of the company they are sharing the stage with. Talking about doing the publicity photography they said: “We had a moment, when we did the photo, it was a bit like being at Madame Tussauds, like we were completion winners.”
Here Come The Boys will recognise and celebrate those who raise awareness for testicular cancer, with four of the UK’s Testicular Cancer charities specially invited to join the audience for this exclusive night.
Performances:
Sir Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual, If He Should Leave You and Give a Little Love
Enrique Iglesias – Hero
Will Young – Grace
Seal – It’s a Man’s World
Boyzone – A medley of previous hits and Better
Scouting for Girls - She’s So Lovely
Sunday, 30 November 2008, 8:00PM - 9:00PM
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I’m glad so many people had a good time watching here comes the boys.
My partner wanted to watch this program as some of the artist performing are of
Interest to her, I asked her a rhetorical question, that if this is about raising awareness
For testicular cancer, which the program keeps telling us affects teenage boys to men
In the mid thirty’s, then why are all the artist performing obviously there to entertain the Ladies like last weeks Diva’s?
Do the well meaning producers believe that the chose of artist tonight are the kind that us bad tempered, uncaring, fed up block are going to want to watch in a bid to get the more important message of check your bollocks regularly and tell someone, I think not
I suspect that it is a fiendish ploy to get our wives and girlfriends to force us to watching this crap and then use it to brow beat us, which we could always do with a little more of ; into checking our balls, I have to say that I am a little pissed that the artist are not to my liking, and I say this as a music lover and an average Joe. Something with a little humour goes down a long way, which is probably why Al Murray was the only person there that I didn’t want to punch.
If you want to get a message across to us boys, don’t pick artist that play up to the girls and try a lot more humour that way people are less likely to see it as a load of patronising bollocks, or do they think that getting there message across to one sensitive guy is more worth while than a one hundred of us uncaring types.
I suppose my comments do come off a little bitter as so many people are working so hard for a good cause, but I really don’t like bullshit, that program clamed to be about helping one group but was clearly about entertaining another.