Pop star launches comeback 23 years after finding fame recording ITV’s My Mum, Your Dad theme tune
Noughties pop crooner Lemar is launching a pop comeback – by recording a new theme tune for Davina McCall’s My Mum Your Dad.
The soul singer first shot to fame in 2001 on BBC talent show Fame Academy but last year overhauled his career and appeared in Bridgerton spin-off, Queen Charlotte.
Now he’s back on the music beat and has leant his silky vocals to a new track which viewers can hear on ITV2’s midlife dating show.
The new theme tune will play when series two begins next Monday.
Insiders say it fits with the fun, Eighties soundtrack for the show – which was so popular last year ITV made a Spotify playlist of the tracks.
Despite finishing third, Lemar was the standout star of Fame Academy, where he duetted with Lionel Richie.
He caught the eye of Beverley Knight, who invited him to sing with her at a Hammersmith Apollo gig.
Sony Music were so impressed with his potential, they signed him to a five-album deal worth £1million.
Lemar even went on to feature on Band Aid 20’s remake of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
On TV, he joined Dancing On Ice in 2018 and then last year appeared as Lord Smythe-Smith in one episode of Netflix saga Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.
He then came third as Cricket on The Masked Singer.
And earlier this year, he starred alongside old friend Beverley Knight in the West End revival of Sister Act the musical.
- Your Mum, My Dad starts at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX from Monday September 16.