JULIAN Clary, national trinket, author and television, radio and pantomime star is coming up your way next year to celebrate 30 years of Clary camp comedy in The Joy Of Mincing.

"There is so much to tell you; the ups and downs of my sordid love life; the true and heart-stopping account of how I saved Dame Joan Collins’s life; and don’t start me on the perils of my DIY electrical home enema kit," says Julian, who lives in Kent with his partner, dogs and several ducks and chickens.

On stage at Harrogate Royal Hall on April 29 and Leeds City Varieties Music Hall on May 11, Julian will wear his well-deserved M.B.E. (Mincer of the British Empire) with pride. "It was the last thing I expected to receive when I knelt down in front of Prince Charles in the scullery at Buckingham Palace," he says. "And because I give and give (until it hurts), I will be handing out honours to a lucky few in the audience too."

Clary's colourful career has seen him win Celebrity Big Brother in 2012; dance on Strictly Come Dancing; become a best-selling novelist; complete countless tours and add children’s author to his list of credits with the July 2015 publication of The Bolds. He has starred in West End productions of Taboo and Cabaret; narrated the Little Princess children’s television series and appears in pantomimes most years, this winter as Spirit of the Ring, (insert ring jokes here) with Wet Wet Wet's Marti Pellow and Lee Mead in Aladdin at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

In August, he fronted a new three-part natural history series for ITV, Nature Nuts. Now 56, Julian promises to be "at my filthy best" in The Joy Of Mincing, live and unplugged. Tickets for Harrogate are on sale on 01423 502116 or at harrogatetheatre.co.uk; Leeds, 0113 243 0808 or cityvarieties.co.uk