Preview: Lou Sanders at Newcastle Tyne Theatre

DANCING ON ICE STAR LOU SANDERS HITS THE ROAD WITH A NEW STAND-UP SHOW FOR 2025

Lou Sanders - No Kissing In The Bingo Hall

Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House

Thursday 6 March 2025

Enormously enjoyable hour of stand-up from one of comedy’s most unique voices….

Full-time cutie pie Lou Sanders announces her biggest UK tour to date for 2025 with a brand-new stand-up show ‘No Kissing In The Bingo Hall’.  The critically acclaimed stand-up and co-host of award-winning Unforgivable will perform at the Tyne Theatre & Opera House on Thursday 6 March 2025.

An internationally acclaimed stand-up comedian, Lou presents her most personal show yet (but fully clothed). Lou said of the show: “Just like Tom Cruise does all his own stunts, I'm going to do all my own jokes!”.

Lou has toured her live shows to packed houses across the world and regularly receives rave reviews. One of Britain’s most original comedians, Lou is consistently a critic’s and audience favourite who has been named a top comedian to see by publications including The Guardian, The Scotsman, The List, The Mirror and the Evening Standard.

Away from the stage, Lou published her debut book, the delightfully gritty memoir ‘What’s That Lady Doing? False Starts and Happy Endings’ which she said, “seems to have connected with women over thirty-five, alcoholics and other vulnerable cross sections of humanity”. Delving into a rich variety of topics including her sexual harassment, overcoming shame, trauma, and discovering spirituality with her trademark humour, honesty and vulnerability. The book was described by The Guardian as “a moving, hilarious and generally astonishing memoir”, and made the top ten biographies on Audible. She also writes regular columns for The Guardian and Metro.

Earlier this year, Lou starred on ITV’s Dancing On Ice and she could also be found in the fourth series of Unforgivable, crowned Best Entertainment Programme at the Broadcast Digital Awards. Lou recently hosted an episode of Live at The Apollo which aired on BBC One recently. Lou is also a previous Taskmaster champion, and she has been featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS), 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), QI (BBC Two), Travel Man (Channel 4), Hypothetical (Dave), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) to name a few of her TV appearances. Lou can regularly be heard on The Unbelievable Truth (BBC Radio 4), while she has been a guest co-host on live radio shows on Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio X with names including John Robins, Elis James and Ed Gamble.

Tickets can be purchased from:

https://www.tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk/whatson/lou-sanders-no-kissing-in-the-bingo-hall/