Eurovision star Mike Nolan, 70, sets his sights on Strictly 2025 after revealing why he left the iconic 80s pop group

Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after walking away from the iconic Eurovision group he fronted for 43 years.

Bucks star Fizz, 70, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, revealed she made the decision to leave the band earlier this year.

Even though he’s hung up his mic, Mike still has the power as he shares his exciting future plans.

He told The Sun: “I would love Strictly Come Dancing because we are a vocal dance group who do routines, but they are just routines.

“Good (ballroom) dancing is now very hard work that requires practice to become perfect.

“I’ve spoken with my agent and I’m watching this space.”

Earlier this year, Mike revealed the real reason he’s leaving the band after 43 years.

Joining host Michael Ball on his BBC Radio 2 show in May, the star first announced her departure, saying: “I’m leaving, it’s for personal reasons.” I decided to go, to leave.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a long, long time and I thought, ‘this is the time to do it.’ We’ve been together 43 years.

The Fizz are a British pop music group formed in 2004 as a spin-off from the original group, Bucks Fizz. The core of the group is Cheryl Baker, 70, Mike and Jay Aston, 63.

And The Fizz appeared on Good Morning Britain where Mike explained the reason he is leaving.

Mike said: “It was actually for personal reasons that I was leaving, but also I was fed up with the amount of traveling we had to do.

“Everyone has to travel but since I can’t drive anymore, I have to get in a taxi, on a train, on another train, meet the band, do the concert, stay the night, two trains back, another one taxi and forty years of that…’

The rest of the group then revealed that Mike had been talking about leaving for three years, joking: “Go for it, for God’s sake!”

However, they kindly added: “Of course it won’t be the same.”

The band also revealed that they were considering replacing him and would hold a farewell concert before Mike leaves.

Bucks Fizz rose to fame in the 1980s after winning the historic Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up in 1981.

Their hit catapulted to number one in the UK charts and sold four million copies worldwide.

The group was originally formed solely for the competition and consisted of singers Mike, Bobby G, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston.

In 2004, a spinoff group under the name The Fizz was formed after 70-year-old Bobby G won a lawsuit preventing his former bandmates from performing under the name The Original Bucks Fizz.

The three other members of the group declared themselves “extremely disappointed” by the judgment, which came in August 2011 after a long legal battle.

The judge ruled in favor of Bobby on the grounds that since his wife (Heidi Manton, also a member of his band) owned the name Bucks Fizz, the use of the name The Original Bucks Fizz therefore constituted an obstacle to their trademark.

Eurovision 2024 was won by Nemo with The Code, a lyrical ode to the singer’s journey towards embracing his gender-neutral identity.