News that US pop star Adam Lambert is to tour the UK with his slightly tweaked US show this autumn have hardly set the country alight with unbridled enthusiasm.
It appears that among most Brits, the feeling is pretty much - ho-hum. Yeah right. Didn't we have all that stuff years ago with Boy George?
Lambert though seems undeterred and keen to big up his party message, regardless of race, creed or sexual orientation. Everybody should get out, buy tickets and enjoy the show.
In all fairness, some Brits welcome the tour, but most remain cynical, considering the whole Adam Lambert image thing, old hat, tired, overdone, and passe.
Brit celeb watchers point out that having introduced the world to Marc Bolan, Elton John, Freddie Mercury, Julian Clary, Larry Grayson, Kenneth Williams, Boy George, and that bloke off Dickinson's Real Deal we're hardly likely to be blown away by a gay American who uses black nail varnish, eyeshadow, and sports an Elvis style bouffant hairdo that's so black it's blue too.
But in the best British tradition, the lad will be offered a warm welcome.
As enthusiastic as the welcome the BP oil slick has been getting on the Gulf Coast. But only in certain quarters.
More as we get it.
