Better Late Than Never Tour
| Tour by Peter Kay | |
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| Start date | 2 December 2022 |
| End date | 8 August 2026 |
| No. of shows | 205 |
The Better Late Than Never Tour was a comedy tour by English stand-up comedian Peter Kay. The tour was announced on 6 November 2022 during the ad break of the series 22 premiere of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. This was the first work project by Kay since the cancellation of his 2018 tour Peter Kay Live: Have Gags, Will Travel which was cancelled due to family reasons.
Tickets for the tour started at £35, matching the price bands of his previous tour The Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour...Now On Tour which holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest selling comedy tour of all time, playing to more than 1.2 million people.
Announced on 6 November 2022, the tour was to start on 2 December 2022 in Manchester before visiting Birmingham, Liverpool, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow and Dublin due to conclude on 11 August 2022. On 9 November, Kay announced a monthly London residency on BBC Radio 2 due to take place at The O2 Arena running for 11 months.
On 12 November 2022, tickets for the tour went on sale with thousands of fans attempting to book tickets. Additional dates were added for over 2 years in advance up until June 2025.
In February 2024, it was announced that Peter Kay would become the first artist to perform at Co-op Live, with shows scheduled for 23 and 24 April 2024. However, due to construction delays at the venue, the opening shows were first postponed by a week and later delayed again until May 2024.
An extension of the tour was announced during the series 24 premiere of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 17 November 2024, adding further dates in previously announced cities along with new locations including Leeds, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Nottingham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Cardiff and Douglas.
Kay confirmed a final 2026 extension of the tour on BBC The One Show on 26 November 2025 with all profits going to 12 cancer charities.