My Tutu Went AWOL

Iestyn Edwards is an Olivier Award winning international variety headline and bass-baritone. He won the Millennial Busker of the Year competition and is proud to be the BBC Woman’s Hour Forces’ Sweetheart.

None of this helped when he was flown out to entertain British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wearing a tutu.

He has lived to tell New Street the tale - in spite of Stacks, a Royal Marines Commando, who thought a bullet with his name on it wasn’t nearly enough and planned to chew his name into a hand grenade.

‘Achingly funny!’ Daily Mail

‘Spreads a bow-wave of happiness....the voice of an angel.’ Dame Joanna Lumley

‘A story unlike any other. Totally mad, very funny and highly recommended. *****’ Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt. The Nation’s Favourite Book (Guardian)