{"id":43745,"date":"2025-11-12T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43745\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:56:31","slug":"mahaffey-to-present-sarah-millican-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43745\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahaffey to present Sarah Millican | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Sarah Millican will bring her \u201cLate Bloomer Tour\u201d to the Tampa Bay area for a show on Saturday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m., at the Duke Energy Center for the Arts \u2014 Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. S., St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The show is sold out according to the venue. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/themahaffey.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">themahaffey.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Millican is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer.<\/p>\n<p>She is one of the foremost touring comedians in the world. Her current show, \u201cLate Bloomer,\u201d is her biggest to date, performing in arenas worldwide and set to be seen by well over half a million people by the time it concludes. Her previous tour show, \u201cBobby Dazzler,\u201d was seen by more than 300,000 people in 16 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Millican has embarked on numerous sell-out tours in the UK and beyond. Her first three Edinburgh fringe runs \u2014 \u201cSarah Millican\u2019s Not Nice,\u201d \u201cSarah Millican: Typical Woman\u201d and \u201cChatterbox\u201d \u2014 were critically acclaimed with the latter earning a nomination for the Foster\u2019s Edinburgh Comedy Award. When she took \u201cChatterbox\u201d on her first national tour, it completely sold out. Her second tour, \u201cThoroughly Modern Millican,\u201d sold over 190,000 tickets, including 13 sold-out nights at the Newcastle Tyne Theatre. Her fifth tour, \u201cControl Enthusiast,\u201d also sold out its performances across the UK and Ireland in 2019, before heading out internationally in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Millican is a regular on top British comedy TV shows including \u201cQI\u201d (BBC), \u201cHave I Got News For You\u201d (BBC), and \u201c8 Out of 10 Cats\u201d (C4). She is a successful author. Her debut book, \u201cHow to be a Champion,\u201d which is \u201cpart autobiography, part self-help book,\u201d shot straight to the top of the literary charts, becoming a Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Sarah Millican will bring her \u201cLate Bloomer Tour\u201d to the Tampa Bay area for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[13426,8973,28720,28719,596,28718,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-43745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-duke-energy-center","tag-late-bloomer-tour","tag-pinellas-county","tag-sarah-millican","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}