Eurovision's Cheryl Baker rules out retirement as she shares huge announcement
The Fizz are working on a biopic 44 years after Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest, Cheryl Baker has confirmed.
Cheryl, Mike Nolan, Jay Aston and Bobby G helped the UK claim their fourth win in the competition with upbeat pop tune Making Your Mind Up back in 1981.
Since their victory, the group has had numerous members and around 15 line-up changes as well as evolving into to spin-off act The Fizz due to a dispute between the original members.
Cheryl and Jay now perform as The Fizz alongside Nikk Mager and Matthew Pateman after Mike decided to leave the group last year citing personal reasons.
Bobby G left Bucks Fizz due to a complex mix of factors, including a desire for a solo career, disagreements over the band's name, and a legal dispute with other members
Speaking at the WhichBingo Awards, Cheryl opened up about her future plans and confirmed some exciting news for fans, revealing "Someone is making a documentary of us."
She continued: "They have been filming us, including Mike Nolan's last gig, so hopefully in the not to distant future you'll be seeing a biopic of Fizz. How great is that?"
Cheryl went on to reveal that the group has a new "lease of life" with Nikk and Matthew joining her and Jay.
She explained: "The beauty now I think is we're not chasing the charts because back then everything was about the charts, promoting new singles, promoting a new album plus other people were putting everything together.
"We were like four puppets to be honest in the 1980s and now we're in control of our own destiny and we still record but we record what we want, when we want. The gigs we do are so much fun.
"I must big up Matthew and Nikk who've joined me and Jay from Bucks Fizz because they are fabulous and their voices are wonderful as well as their energy and enthusiasm, and it ups your game when you're working with people that are so good. It's like a new lease of life with for the band and I'm really enjoying it."
Despite being in show business for over four decades, Cheryl, 71, confirmed she has no plans to retire.
Sharing the secret behind her successful career, she said: "By keeping working and keeping your name in the frame.
"I was very lucky because post-Eurovision I went into television and because of that my face became familiar throughout the nineties and then in the noughties I started working again with The Fizz and doing reality TV shows.
"There are peers of mine that have retired but I've got no intension of retiring, I have too much fun."
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