1. Wynne Evans sang the role of Ubaldo Piangi in the 25th anniversary production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, and sang "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" at the last game at White Hart Lane.
25 Facts About Wynne Evans
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Wynne Evans reprised the song at the opening of Spurs' new stadium.
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In 2023 Wynne Evans won the eighteenth series of Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One and in 2024 he competed in the twenty-second series of Strictly Come Dancing with partner, Katya Jones before getting eliminated in Blackpool.
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In late 2011, Wynne Evans was cast as the opera singer Ubaldo Piangi, in the 25th anniversary celebratory production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Wynne Evans made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2009 singing Vakula in the new production of Cherevichki, and appeared again in 2011 as the Mayor of Mexia in Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Anna Nicole, based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith.
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For English National Opera Wynne Evans has sung Alfredo in La Traviata, Spoletta and Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Second Jew in Salome.
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In 2010, Wynne Evans signed a six-album deal with Warner Music; his first album is called A Song in My Heart and was released on 21 March 2011.
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Since August 2009, Wynne Evans has starred in an advertising campaign for British insurance comparison website Go.
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Wynne Evans made adverts in the series with Jimmy Carr, Sue Barker, Stuart Pearce, Ray Mears, Louie Spence and Stephen Hawking, with all of them trying to kill him and thus save the nation from his singing about Go.
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In 2023 Wynne Evans won the eighteenth series of Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One.
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On 17 November 2024, Wynne Evans was voted off by the show's judges, becoming the eighth celebrity to be eliminated from the competition.
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Wynne Evans presented a programme about the Eisteddfod for the BBC and his own TV show on S4C.
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Between February 2016 and 23 June 2023, he presented The Wynne Evans Show on the station from 11am to 2pm every weekday.
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Wynne Evans was one of eight celebrities chosen to participate in an intense week of learning Welsh at a campsite in Pembrokeshire for the series cariad@iaith:love4language, shown on S4C in May 2012.
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In 2012, Wynne Evans presented The Guide to Opera on Classic FM.
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In 2013, Wynne Evans became a regular presenter on Classic FM.
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Wynne Evans appeared on the football show Soccer AM in August 2012 and again in August 2013.
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In March 2015, Wynne Evans appeared in the Sky1 comedy drama Stella.
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On 28 January 2025, Wynne Evans apologised for making an "inappropriate and unacceptable" remark at the launch for the 2025 Strictly Live Tour.
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Wynne Evans was made a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards of Wales in 2012 and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2013.
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Wynne Evans was made a Member of the Order of Saint John by the Queen in 2008.
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Wynne Evans was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to Music, to Broadcasting and to Charity.
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Wynne Evans's mother was Elizabeth Wynne Evans MBE, who founded and ran both the Carmarthen Youth Opera and the Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen for 25 years.
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Wynne Evans died in 2004 and subsequently Evans and his two brothers founded the Trust.
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Wynne Evans played a cameo in the film but made the Behind the Curtain programme about his life for Sky Arts.