New artists and hosts announced for Olympic Handover Celebrations

They will join multi-million-selling artists The Feeling, Il Divo, Katherine Jenkins, McFly, Will Young, James Morrison and Scouting for Girls.

Hosted by Claudia Winkleman and Matt Baker, Olympians including Dame Mary Peters, Roger Black, Sally Gunnell, Jason Gardener, and Sharron Davies will help mark the moment when London becomes the official Summer Olympic City.

The show will feature unique collaborations and specially-arranged performances, some with a sporting theme. It will link up with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Closing Ceremony, where London Mayor Boris Johnson will be symbolically handed the Olympic Flag in front of a worldwide audience estimated to be around 1.5 billion.

Tickets have already been allocated via a ballot, which was oversubscribed, but non-ticket holders will be able to watch the performances via the UK’s largest-ever network of public giant screens, known as ‘live sites’. The event will also be broadcast live BBC One and BBC Radio 2. 

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