Bruno made a brief appearance on last night's Children In Need BBC television appeal with the rest of the cast of Flashdance.

The cast were performing in Cardiff, which was raising money for the charity by holding an event at the Wales Millennium Centre.

Hosted by John Barrowman and Gethin Jones, it also saw performances by the Stereophonics and Only Men Aloud.

Although the full Cardiff event wasn't televised, BBC1 did show a round-up of the event later on in the evening, and this included a clip of Flashdance.

They were performing What A Feeling and you could just see Bruno singing at the back before walking forward and joining co star Victoria Hamilton-Barritt at the front of the stage. Although it's only a brief clip, I thought you might like to see it if you didn't manage to catch it last night, so I have uploaded it to the multimedia page here.

The video starts by showing a little clip of Flashdance (Bruno isn't on stage at this point) and then moving on to show clips of other things that happened in Cardiff last night, with the music to What A Feeling playing over the top. The video then ends with another clip of Flashdance (with Bruno now on stage), showing the cast performing the last chorus before taking their bows.

The Flashdance juggernaut has reached the Millennium Centre in Cardiff this week and continues to get fairly good reviews

Wales Online praises the quality of the cast, saying that: "Victoria Hamilton-Barritt’s Alex, for example, is just as feisty as her screen counterpart, if not more so, and while Jimmy’s story isn’t in the original film, Bruno Langley brings his considerable acting talent to the part and makes him one of the star characters of the show."

And the South Wales Argus also praises the cast, saying that: "A star-studded cast, including Noel Sullivan (Hear’say) and Bruno Langley (Coronation Street) created a strong ensemble with some loveable characters shining through."

There was an interesting interview with Flashdance star Noel Sullivan and producer Christopher Malcolm in the Oxford Mail yesterday. Noel and Christopher were in Oxford this week to officially launch the December run of Flashdance there, alongside choreographer Arlene Phillips and other stars from the show.

In yesterdays interview, Christopher says that they want to take the show to the West End now and that America is also interested in it! He also praises both Bruno and Noel, saying: "Bruno and Noel have really developed. They have a lot of talent."

You can read the full interview here.

Congratulations to the cast, crew and everyone involved with Flashdance - they have achieved a nomination in this years Manchester Evening News awards!

The show is nominated in the Best Musical category alongside Evita, West Side Story and Zorro. The winner, as decided by an expert panel, will be announced at a star studded ceremony in Manchester on 2nd December.

You can see all the other categories and nominations here.

Bruno appeared on the Paul O'Grady Show yesterday in what was a very good episode

Bruno was firstly interviewed, where he promoted Flashdance and also revealed how he forgot the lyrics to his song whilst he was on stage recently! He also talked about Coronation Street, with both Paul and fellow guest Amanda Redman praising him for the Todd storyline, and he also talked about fatherhood and his son Freddie, who is going through a bit of a naughty phase at the moment as he keeps hitting people! I think there must be something in the name though as my nephew Freddie is exactly the same too!

After his interview, there was a bit of a cooking segment, where Bruno, Amanda and Paul were taught all about food and cooking from genius chef Heston Blumenthal!

You can watch both the interview and cooking segment on the multimedia page here.

I have also uploaded lots of screencaps from the show, which you can see by clicking below...

Bruno was supposed to be on the Paul O'Grady Show on Friday but will now be on the show tomorrow instead, along with actress Amanda Redman and chef Heston Blumenthal, who are also on the show!

Catch Bruno tomorrow from 5pm-6pm on channel 4 or watch the repeat an hour later on channel 4+1.

Bruno was recently interviewed on Hayes Fm, where he chatted to presenter Jill Kenton about his role in Flashdance and his plans for the future, saying how he would love to do some more TV and film roles.

He also answered that all important question - who his favourite member of Girls Aloud is! (Cheryl Cole!)

You can listen to the interview on Jill Kenton's voice reel on her official website here.

(thanks to Peter)

Bruno keeps on getting well deserved praise for his role in Flashdance

A review in The Bolton News last month praised Bruno, Noel Sullivan and Ruthie Stephens for their "quality performances" and a review in the Edinburgh Evening News commented: "As for the veteran Bernie Nolan as Alex's mother, well, she just makes it look so easy, as does – surprisingly – ex-Corrie star Bruno Langley."

(thanks to Joanna)

Flashdance has reached Sunderland this week on its nationwide UK tour and there's a great review of it on the UK Theatre Network.

Bruno gets a particularly good review as reviewer Steve Burbridge writes: "Bruno Langley gave a fine performance as good-boy-gone-bad Jimmy Kaminsky. It is always difficult for actors who have achieved fame through soaps to be allowed to be taken seriously as versatile performers with genuine talent and ability. However, I believe that Bruno has now defied any potential doubters."

You can read the full review here.

Prior to Sunderland, the show visited Bradford a few weeks ago and was reviewed by stagebeauty.net, which gave the show a mixture of positive and negative comments.

Bruno comes out of the review very well though with the reviewer writing: "The biggest problem is that the main characters just don't really engage us enough. Consequently we end up being rather more involved with the back stories surrounding the much more interesting characters of Gloria and Jimmy than we are with the main thread about Alex and hum-drum Nick. And we can blame that in no small part on fantastic performances from Bruno Langley as Jimmy, and Ruthie Stevens as Gloria. Bruno is hugely underused in this piece given that he has a great voice never hinted at in his TV appearances."

You can read the full review here, although please note that it contains some major spoilers for the show.

(thanks to Joanna and Peter)

According to the Radio Times, Bruno will be a guest on The Paul O'Grady Show next Friday

The show will air from 5pm-6pm on channel 4 on 31st October, or you can catch it an hour later on channel 4+1.