Like many performers, comedian Russell Kane had to postpone the remainder of his tour when lockdown hit. While he says he’s OK financially at the moment, it could have been a very different story.
Russell, who was speaking on White Wine Question Time, said if the pandemic had hit last year, things could have been very different for him and his family. “I'm lucky in that the bulk of my tour was last year, so my tour’s just paid out,” he told podcast host Kate Thornton. “I'm very, very lucky.
I've got no worries. If it had been last year… Russell went on to explain that many people who work in show business are registered as Limited Companies and unfortunately, this is the one sector of the economy that the Government hasn’t provided for.