One could be forgiven for thinking Sir Cliff Richard was en route to the Australian jungle as he made his way across Brisbane Airport on Tuesday morning.
Currently the entry point for this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! contestants, the Queensland airport welcomed Sir Cliff as he travels Australia with his Can’t Stop Me Now tour.
And he was hard to miss while making his way out of arrivals courtesy of a double denim outfit akin to those favoured by Hollywood star Ryan Gosling in Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking 2023 film, Barbie.
Indeed, Sir Cliff, 85, inadvertantly resembled a talkin’, walkin’, livin’ Ken Doll as he greeted fans ahead of his final Australian show, which takes place in Brisbane on November 12.
Opting for a dark blue denim shirt and matching knee-length shorts, the veteran entertainer appeared to be in high spirits after making the short flight to Queensland from Sydney.
Sir Cliff rounded off his youthful look with a pair of comfortable trainers while making an exit with a man bag casually slung across one shoulder.
One could be forgiven for thinking Sir Cliff Richard was en route to the Australian jungle as he made his way across Brisbane Airport on Tuesday morning
Currently the entry point for this year’s I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! contestants, the Queensland airport welcomed Sir Cliff as he travels Australia with his Can’t Stop Me Now tour
The singer recently admitted he was unsure if his latest run of shows would be a ‘farewell tour’ because he does not look too far into the future and ‘could be dead next year’.
He told a New Zealand radio station: ‘The thing I would have to give up probably at some time is touring. It’s very wearing, and you never know when you wake up in the morning whether your voice is still there.
‘I might be dead the next year! So I don’t even think about it anymore. It’s one of those things. As I get older maybe I’ll become less able to perform, so I can’t say’.
Sir Cliff also revealed that he would not be performing his famous dance moves on the Can’t Stop Me Now tour, due to not wanting to seem an octogenarian ‘trying to be 18’.
‘I’m sure the audience will see that we – the big band and I – are friends and almost a family when we’re on tour.
‘So we’ll try and do something that will make it look as though I’m 18! But I’m not’.
Sir Cliff, who was awarded his knighthood in 1995, has an epic back catalogue which includes more than 50 studio and live albums.
His music career began when his father bought him a guitar at the age of 16 and he later joined band The Drifters.
Opting for a dark blue denim shirt and matching knee-length shorts, the veteran entertainer appeared to be in high spirits after making the short flight to Queensland from Sydney
He was hard to miss while making his way out of arrivals courtesy of a double denim outfit akin to those favoured by Hollywood star Ryan Gosling in Greta Gerwig ‘s 2023 film, Barbie
The legendary crooner greeted onlookers with a smile as he prepared to leave the airport
Sir Cliff (left) inadvertantly resembled a talkin’, walkin’, livin’ Ken Doll (right) in his trendy double denim ensemble
Sir Cliff made an exit from Brisbane Airport with a man bag casually slung across one shoulder
In 1958, he had a solo hit with his song Move It and has since sold 250million records.
The Living Doll hitmaker previously insisted he’ll never retire and the word is ‘not in his vocabulary’.
He said in 2022 that he likes the freedom of working whenever he chooses and would like to be less strict with his plans in the future.
Cliff told the Mirror: ‘I don’t know if I ever want to retire. I don’t mind stopping.
‘Stopping would mean that I could absolutely change my mind any time I wanted to, or phone my office and say, “Can you get us a couple of nights at the Royal Albert Hall?”
‘So, retiring is not in my vocabulary, but stopping is good for me – I can work whenever I want to, if I want to.’
