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Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after stepping away from the iconic Eurovision group he fronted for 43 years.
The 70-year-old Bucks Fizz star, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, revealed he made the decision to leave the group earlier this year.
Despite hanging up his microphone, Mike still has all the moves as he shared his exciting future plans.
He told The Sun: 'I would like to Strictly Come Dancing because we're a dance vocal group that does routines, but they're just routines.
'Proper (ballroom) dancing now is real hard work that requires practice to make perfect.
'I have spoken with my agent and watch this space.'
Mike Nolan has set his sights on Strictly 2025 after stepping away from the iconic Eurovision group he fronted for 43 years
The 70-year-old Bucks Fizz star, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, revealed he made the decision to leave the group earlier this year
Mike hopes to be part of the 2025 line up for Strictly (pictured hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly)
Earlier this year, Mike revealed the real reason why he is leaving the band after 43 years.
Joining host Michael Ball on his BBC Radio 2 show in May, the star first announced he was leaving saying: 'I'm going to be leaving, it's for personal reasons. I have decided to go, to leave.
'I've been thinking about it for a long long, long time and I just thought: 'this is the time to do it'. We've been together for 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 consists of Cheryl Baker, 70, Mike and Jay Aston, 63.
And The Fizz appeared on Good Morning Britain where Mike elaborated on the reason why he is leaving.
Mike said: 'It's actually personal reasons why I'm leaving but also as well I was getting fed up with the amount of travelling you've got to do.
'Everyone has to travel but because I can't drive anymore, I've got to get into a cab, onto a train, onto another train, meet up with the band, do the gig, stay overnight, two trains back, another cab and forty years of it...'
The rest of the band then revealed that Mike has been talking about leaving for the last three years as they joked: 'Just go, for goodness' sake!'
The Fizz performing Bucks Fizz's Eurovision Song Contest winning song Making Your Mind Up
Revealing his reason for leaving the band, Mike said: 'It's actually personal reasons why I'm leaving but also as well I was getting fed up with the amount of travelling you've got to do'
They did then sweetly add however: 'Of course, it's not going to be the same.'
The band also revealed they have plans to replace him and they will be holding a farewell concert before Mike's exit.
Bucks Fizz reached stardom in the 1980s after winning the historical Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up in 1981.
Their banger catapulted to No1 in the UK charts and sold four million copies worldwide.
The group was originally formed solely for the contest and was comprised of vocalists Mike, Bobby G, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston.
In 2004, a spin-off group of the band as The Fizz was formed after Bobby G, 70, won a court case preventing his former bandmates to perform under the name The Original Bucks Fizz.
The remaining three bandmates were said to be 'extremely disappointed' by the ruling, which happened in August 2011 after a long legal battle.
The judge ruled in favour of Bobby on grounds that since his wife (Heidi Manton, also a member of his group) owned the Bucks Fizz name, the use of the name The Original Bucks Fizz was therefore an impediment on their trademark.
The 2024 Eurovision was won by Nemo with The Code, an operatic ode to the singer's journey toward embracing their nongender identity.
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