Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny viewers are left shocked year after year over the beloved yearly TV show. The programme is a New Year’s Eve staple on the BBC, featuring unique performances from big-name musicians and rising stars as they all gather to ring in the next 12 months.
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Tonight’s show to ring in 2025 sees a brilliant line-up including Roger Taylor of Queen, The Boomtown Rats, CMAT and Jungle. However, everything is not as it seems to a large portion of viewers. Unbeknown to some, the show is actually filmed way before the big day and then broadcast as if it’s live, with a rousing rendition of Auld Lang Syne and a countdown to midnight.
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In the BBC’s defence, they previously described the show as an ‘idealised New Year’s Eve party with a line-up that would surely be impossible to deliver on 31st December’. Although many people already know the Hootenanny ‘secret’, some viewers are only just getting the memo – and Sir Rod Stewart was the one who gave the game away most recently after performing on the last Hootenanny to ring in 2024.
Posting on X at the start of 2024, SarahO_Connell wrote: ‘Rod Stewart is currently performing live in Las Vegas. This is how I found out that Jools Holland’s Hootenanny was pre-recorded!’. Indeed, in the early hours for people in the UK, the Maggie May rocker was already over in Sin City ringing in the New Year on CNN’s own broadcast.
