Our Tudor War!
TV Times|September 29, 2018

William Mitchell and Tony McMahon on battling it out to play Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace

Caren Clark
Our Tudor War!

Should a group of Henry VIIIs be called a ‘bellow’, or perhaps a ‘bluster’?!

Our quandary stems from ITV’s new six-part entertainment series The Big Audition, which goes behind the scenes during a range of life-changing tryouts.

In this week’s opening episode, we follow several nervous hopefuls as they channel their inner Henry VIII in a bid to land a job portraying the Tudor tyrant in historical reenactments at Hampton Court Palace.

Here, two of the aspiring Henrys, Tony McMahon, 55, and William Mitchell, 34, tell TV Times about their dream of playing Britain’s most infamous monarch…

What made you want to audition for this role?

This story is from the September 29, 2018 edition of TV Times.

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