Mark Benton as Francis, the Director of the play. In July 2012, it was announced that Benton would star as Edna Turnblad in the 2013 UK tour of "Hairspray the Musical", starting in February 2013 and finishing in September 2013. In 2015 Benton appeared as Police Constable Walt Everett in the BBC daytime series "Father Brown", episode 3.12 "The Standing Stones". He also appeared as Les in the "La Couchette", the first episode of the second series of anthology series "Inside No. 9". In 2015, Benton presented the BBC One daytime game show "The Edge" for its first series, being replaced by
Michael Ball (singer) Now" featuring the song "Fight the Fight" from Tim Rice's new musical From Here to Eternity. November 2014 Ball released new album "If Everyone Was Listening". He will next year go out on the road touring from 7 April–May 3. As an actor, Ball briefly appeared as Malcolm Nuttall in "Coronation Street" in 1985. Ball has also turned his hand to presenting both on TV and radio. Ball had his own TV series, "Michael Ball", in 1993 and 1994 a Christmas Special in 1995 and a three-part series in 1998 filmed by BBC Cymru Wales "Ball in the Hall". These