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Cilla Black’s Eye of the Tiger cover certainly packed a punch, but not necessarily in a good way

Poke Staff. Updated July 5th, 2025

For many years, Cilla Black was the face of Saturday night in the UK, with Blind Date and Surprise, Surprise – and even earlier, her own show – Cilla.

The singing star wasn’t afraid to really get into character for her musical interludes …unfortunately – link the time she covered Survivor’s Rocky theme hit, The Eye of the Tiger.

@teiganish 🦷🦷 A lorra lorra violence with our Cilla singing “Eye Of The Tiger” 🥊🥴😂🤣 This is probably the Cilla most flight attendants got to know when they didn’t bring her champers and warm nuts out quickly enough. 😂 #cillablack #surprisesurprise #eyeofthetiger #camp #campy #kitsch #kitschy #eighties #80s #cillagram #nostalgia ♬ original sound – Teigan Reamsbottom

TikToker teiganish described the video as –

A lorra lorra violence with our Cilla singing “Eye Of The Tiger”

Adding –

This is probably the Cilla most flight attendants got to know when they didn’t bring her champers and warm nuts out quickly enough. 😂

We suspect her viewing figures weren’t made up of people like these TikTok users.

It’s amazing what she was allowed to get away with in the name of light entertainment.
Astro Nero

Stallone would’ve had one hell of a choice picking between this version & Survivor’s.
Dorothy Shortstraw

The way she sang ‘Glory’ in the first verse nearly ended me 😂
VikkiLou

Of course, it found its way to Twitter back in 2023, where Corey Kitchener wasn’t thrilled.

Here’s what other tweeters thought.

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It really did beg one important question.

For anyone who was worried –

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