{"id":253964,"date":"2025-07-10T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253964\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:50:13","slug":"pop-idol-icon-gareth-gates-strips-off-for-boybands-in-the-buff-show-in-saucy-career-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253964\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Idol icon Gareth Gates strips off for Boybands in the Buff show in saucy career move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Idol legend Gareth Gates has stripped off for a saucy new career move as he joins a Boybands in the Buff, a cheeky new stage show that is set to tour the country<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Fawlty-Towers-The-Play-Gala-Night-VIP-Arrivals.jpg\" alt=\"Gareth Gates is back and saucier than ever\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Gareth Gates is back and saucier than ever(Image: Dave Benett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Pop Idol legend<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/gareth-gates\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Gareth Gates <\/a>strips off for saucy new boyband stage show and turned up the heat with his cheekiest career move yet &#8211; baring (almost) all for his latest gig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/pop-idols-michelle-mcmanus-unrecognisable-35170109\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Idol star<\/a>, now 40, showed off his ripped physique in a steamy poster for Boybands in the Buff, a naughty new stage show set to tour the UK next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/gareth-gates\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Gareth<\/a>, who shot to fame on the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/itv\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV<\/a> talent show back in 2002, will join a cast of \u201cripped and ridiculously talented performers\u201d for what\u2019s being billed as \u201cthe ultimate throwback concert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Promoters tease fans can expect a night where there\u2019s \u201cso much going on, and coming off\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Pop-Idol-legend-Gareth-Gates-strips-off-for-Boybands-in-the-Buff-show-in-saucy-career-move.jpg\" alt=\"Pop Idol legend Gareth Gates strips off for Boybands in the Buff show in saucy career move\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Gareth Gates strips off for new show called Boyband in the Buff(Image: Instagram)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They promise: \u201cWith nothing but harmonies, dance moves, and a whole lot of skin, the boys belt out the biggest hits of the 90s and 00s, from Backstreet Boys to NSYNC, Blue to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/take-that-1\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Take That<\/a>, in a show that\u2019s as nostalgic as it is naughty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In an <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/instagram\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> post, Gareth told fans \u201cI cannot wait to join the cast of Boyband in the Buff! Touring the whole of the UK throughout 2026, click the link in my bio for the tour list. But be quick&#8230; the closer you are to the front, the better view you\u2019ll have &#8211; More dates to be announced soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The show is set to visit more than 25 locations, including Felixstowe, Tunbridge Wells, Stevenage, Aldershot, Clacton-on-Sea and Worcester.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Gareth-Gates.jpg\" alt=\"Gareth has been a household name for years\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Gareth has been a household name for years(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Gareth became a household name when he came runner-up to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/will-young\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Young<\/a> in the first series of Pop Idol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Since then, he\u2019s continued to tour the UK and just last year fronted his own tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Sharing his love of their music at the time, he said \u201cIt\u2019s a concert that we want people up at the end, singing along, dancing, having a great night out. My parents always used to listen to them so it\u2019s been drummed into me as a child. And then I\u2019ve done a few shows in the past, which has been based around the music, so to produce my own version of the show is great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop Idol legend Gareth Gates has stripped off for a saucy new career move as he joins a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[45150,77,97658,97656,97657,208,269,13899,2356,16,15,66361],"class_list":{"0":"post-253964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-american-idol","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-four-seasons","11":"tag-frankie-valli","12":"tag-gareth-gates","13":"tag-itv","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-take-that","16":"tag-talent-shows","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-will-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829972258253463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253964","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=253964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}