Bianca Westwood Reunites with Jeff Stelling for 'Dream Job' Tour
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Bianca Westwood is thrilled to have secured a 'dream job' working alongside her former Sky Sports colleague, Jeff Stelling, at talkSPORT. Westwood was a reporter on Soccer Saturday for 11 years before departing this past summer, but she has since slotted in at talkSPORT Towers, where Stelling is poised to embark on a live show tour across the UK. Westwood will be joining him on the tour, which will feature more than 20 dates and will see Stelling reunite with a host of friends and ex-colleagues, including Paul Merson and original Soccer Saturday panellists Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson.
The tour, titled 'An Evening with Jeff Stelling', will kick off in on January 10, with Westwood set to switch roles and host Stelling for a change. The string of dates will come to a close at Cardiff's New Theatre on March 27, with tickets already on sale.
Westwood is looking forward to helping the Soccer Saturday icon tell his stories in a string of live shows up and down the country. She said: “A lot of the shows are sold out already so we're really buzzing. A lot of people are there to obviously see Jeff, but the good thing I think about me doing it as well is we do have that dynamic. I think if he had a different host he wouldn't be able to have that risque or harsh banter with someone he didn't know as well. So I can really stick the boot in, which I'm really looking forward to. I can really wind him up and get paid for it, which is my dream job.”
Westwood clearly rates Stelling's expertise, dubbing him 'one of the best broadcasters to have ever worked in football'. She added: “He's a brilliant raconteur, he's got some great stories to tell, and the way he tells them is just brilliant - not just about himself, obviously, about the panel, about letters he's had in the past, hate mail, even the amazing Jeff gets trolled. He has real fun with it and it's really a brilliant watch so I'd tell everyone to go and watch it.”
After 23 years as part of the Sky crew, former Soccer Saturday reporter Bianca Westwood is reuniting with Jeff Stelling at talkSPORT for a 'dream job' tour. The tour will take them up and down the country, with original Soccer Saturday panellists Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson among the confirmed guests. Westwood is looking forward to helping Stelling tell his stories and 'stick the boot in' with their banter, calling it her 'dream job'. Tickets for the tour are already on sale, with the first show kicking off in on January 10.
