{"id":799933,"date":"2026-10-12T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799933\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:14:09","slug":"lost-voice-guy-to-bring-first-tour-in-five-years-to-andover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799933\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Voice Guy to bring first tour in five years to Andover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lee Ridley, known for his sharp wit and use of a communication aid, will perform his new show The Cerebral Palsy Puppet at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk\/topics\/the-lights\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Lights<\/a> on Friday, April 16.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Lost Voice Guy is bringing his new tour to Andover. (Image: Steve Ullathorne)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ridley said: &#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to getting back on the road again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Travelling the country is one of the few times people are genuinely pleased to see a disabled bloke turn up unexpectedly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing better than performing live and hearing an audience laugh, as long as I remember to keep my iPad charged, otherwise it&#8217;s a very long 90 minutes of awkward eye contact.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to get back out there, and hopefully I&#8217;ll make it to the encore before I have to ask if anyone&#8217;s got a USB-C charger.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He first rose to national fame after winning Britain\u2019s Got Talent in 2018 and has since appeared on shows including The Royal Variety Performance, Live at the Apollo\u00a0and The Last Leg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a writer and performer, he created the radio comedy Ability and appeared in the BBC Three series Jerk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Ridley, known for his sharp wit and use of a communication aid, will perform his new show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}