Sports Personality of the Year awards will be a socially distant affair but Rick Astley and Celeste will aim to raise spirits
Sadly for the residents of Salford, there will be no opportunity to watch the nation’s finest athletes totter in heels and tails through the windswept foyer of an out-of-town conference venue. Another victim of the Covid-19 crisis, this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be a socially distant affair.
While Spoty’s tour of Britain has in recent years taken in the P&J Live complex in Aberdeen and Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena, on Sunday it will return to the home of BBC Sport in Media City. There will be few guests from the great and the good of British and world sport. There will be no gala crowd compromised of lucky local people. In some small measure of compensation, however, there will at least be Rick Astley.
Written by Paul MacInnes
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/20/lewis-hamilton-favourite-bbc-musical-spoty-sports-personality-of-year under the title “Lewis Hamilton favourite as BBC aims to hit right tone with musical Spoty | Paul MacInnes”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
