SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR - ELLIS-BEXTOR SCRAPS TOUR TO SUPPORT TAKE THAT

ELLIS-BEXTOR SCRAPS TOUR TO SUPPORT TAKE THAT

Dance star SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR has apologised to fans for postponing her forthcoming U.K. tour - so she can go on the road with TAKE THAT. The Murder On The Dancefloor hitmaker will join Take That as their "special guest" on 34 dates of the reformed British boyband's European tour, which kicks off in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 11 October (07). Ellis-Bextor's own tour was due to kick off in early October, but she has postponed the dates for the time being because touring with the Back For Good singers was a "dream" opportunity. She says, "(It was) incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to do both. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity any girl would be a fool to turn down." The 28-year-old is looking to reschedule her U.K. tour for 2008 and promises her solo dates will be "bigger and better than ever".