This year’s Royal Variety show is on BBC1 tomorrow at 7:30pm ‘til 10pm and it’s a rather special one as this year marks the 80th anniversary of Royal Variety performances.

The first Royal Show took place on 1st July 1912 at The Palace Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary. The King had told the show’s organisers that he would attend provided the profits went to the Variety Artiste’s Benevolent Fund and so the Royal Variety performance was born and the charity still continues to benefit from the performance.

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The Royal Variety Performance 2008 is to air this Wednesday night on BBC One. The show celebrates its 80th anniversary as it returns to the London Palladium with a roster of stars from the worlds of music, comedy and theatre, performing in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. Headlining the annual charity event are comeback kings Take That, while R’n'B star Rihanna prepares to take a bow alongside songstresses Duffy, Leona Lewis and the Pussycat Dolls.

That all sounds great, but really all I am interested in watching are the gorgeous Take That, pictured arriving at the awards ceremony which was filmed on Friday night. Do those men get more gorgeous by the day?