JIMMY Osmond, once your Long Haired Over From Liverpool in childhood pop day in 1972, will play slick lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago on tour at the Grand Opera House, York, from April 20 to 25.

Osmond will join the national tour from March 9 to June 13, performing alongside Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell in EastEnders), who will star as Roxie Hart.

Osmond made his British stage debut in Boogie Nights in Blackpool in 2004 and subsequently was a contestant in I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here in 2005. At present he is in the West End for six weeks in Grease.