{"id":113318,"date":"2025-05-19T03:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113318\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T03:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:17:14","slug":"the-fizz-land-biopic-44-years-after-winning-eurovision-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113318\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fizz land biopic 44 years after winning Eurovision | TV &#038; Radio | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Baker has excitedly confirmed that The Fizz, the spin-off from the iconic Eurovision-winning group Bucks Fizz, are set to be immortalised in a biopic 44 years after their triumph with the catchy hit Making Your Mind Up.<\/p>\n<p>The original quartet, consisting of Cheryl, Mike Nolan, Jay Aston, and Bobby G, secured the UK&#8217;s fourth Eurovision victory in 1981, propelling them to stardom.<\/p>\n<p>Despite undergoing line-up changes and evolving into The Fizz due to legal wrangles among the original members, the band has continued to entertain fans.<\/p>\n<p>Following Mike Nolan&#8217;s departure last year for personal reasons, Cheryl and Jay now perform with Nikk Mager and Matthew Pateman as The Fizz.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby G&#8217;s exit from Bucks Fizz was attributed to a complex blend of factors, including solo career ambitions, disputes over the band&#8217;s name, and legal battles with fellow bandmates, reports the Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whichbingo.co.uk\/awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WhichBingo Awards<\/a>, Cheryl shared her enthusiasm about the upcoming documentary, stating: &#8220;Someone is making a documentary of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been filming us, including Mike Nolan&#8217;s last gig, so hopefully in the not to distant future you&#8217;ll be seeing a biopic of Fizz. How great is that?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Cheryl also disclosed that The Fizz has been rejuvenated with the addition of Nikk and Matthew, giving the group a fresh &#8220;lease of life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the past, she noted the shift in the band&#8217;s focus, saying: &#8220;The beauty now I think is we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were like four puppets to be honest in the 1980s and now we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must big up Matthew and Nikk who&#8217;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&#8217;re working with people that are so good. It&#8217;s like a new lease of life with for the band and I&#8217;m really enjoying it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite being in show business for over four decades, Cheryl, 71, confirmed she has no plans to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the secret behind her successful career, she said: &#8220;By keeping working and keeping your name in the frame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are peers of mine that have retired but I&#8217;ve got no intension of retiring, I have too much fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheryl Baker has excitedly confirmed that The Fizz, the spin-off from the iconic Eurovision-winning group Bucks Fizz, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[51270,51269,51268,77,19345,13735,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-biopic","9":"tag-bucks-fizz","10":"tag-cheryl-baker","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-eurovision","13":"tag-eurovision-song-contest","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114532335197997775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}