Eurovision legend makes bid for Strictly 2025 after quitting group of 43 years
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EUROVISION legend Mike Nolan has made a bid for Strictly 2025 after quitting the legendary Eurovision group of 43 years. The 70-year-old was the lead singer of Bucks Fizz, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest - but now he has hung up his mic after "making up his mind" to leave the group.
![[Mike Nolan, Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker, and Bobby G celebrate their Eurovision Song Contest win in 1981]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/mike-nolan-jay-aston-cheryl-632881851_b3f2a3.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The dance routine to the winning song Making Your Mind Up involved the girls whipping off their skirts to reveal shorter ones underneath. After 43 years, Mike still has all the moves and speaking exclusively to The Sun Online, he said: "I would like to Strictly Come Dancing because we're a dance vocal group that does routines, but they're just routines.
![[Bucks Fizz, a pop group, posed on motorbikes with their gold discs, awarded for their single, Making Your Mind Up, which won Eurovision]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bucks-fizz-pop-group-motorbikes-673967815.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"Proper (ballroom) dancing now is real hard work that requires practice to make perfect. "I have spoken with my agent and watch this space.". December is a thoughtful time for Mike as he celebrated his 70th birthday earlier this month. But in less happier thoughts, it was also the 40th anniversary of the horrific crash on in which he and the band were involved.
![[The Fizz performing Bucks Fizz's Eurovision Song Contest winning song Making Your Mind Up.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/chat-performance-re-band-behind-636833178_539b16.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He slipped into a coma and woke up with brain damage and reduced vision, but he survived. After much deliberation, 2024 was the year that he decided the time was right to finally quit the group The Fizz - which consisted of original members Jay Aston and Cheryl Baker, playing his last ever gig last month.
