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This Stars in Their Eyes Christmas Special has to be seen to be believed

Stars in Their Eyes was primetime Saturday night telly for years – which is a whole thing to mull over all by itself – but the Christmas specials really pulled out all the stops. In 1992, they gathered a whole host of “lookalikes” and “soundalikes” – inverted commas for legal reasons – to sing the Band Aid hit, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. Rather than try to replicate the original singers, they gathered a whole host of alternative “stars”.

May I remind you that this was primetime TV – at Christmas.

Twitter user Andy P spotted the vintage gem and had this to say about it.

https://twitter.com/ap__76/status/1074948507398737925

His find was much appreciated.

https://twitter.com/AWrightstuff/status/1074961786070294529

Mostly appreciated …

https://twitter.com/BarcaJim/status/1074960227064315904

Can’t please everyone.