Shropshire comic Greg Davies to host Royal Variety Performance

The comic, from Wem, will front the annual show at London Palladium on November 19.

He said: "I am delighted to host the Royal Variety.

"It is a role that I am wildly unsuited to and I will no doubt offend a great many people, but my Mum has a voracious appetite for meeting members of the Royal family and this seems a reasonable price to pay for the gift of life."

Stars lined up to appear include Take That, George Ezra, Clean Bandit, Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo.

Also taking to the stage are Britain’s Got Talent winner the Lost Voice Guy, Rick Astley, comedian Rhod Gilbert, Cirque Du Soleil and the West End casts of Hamilton and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical.

The event will be screened on ITV in December.