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Hugh Jackman opened the Brit awards with The Greatest Show and audiences loved it

Published 08:22 21 Feb 2019 GMT

Updated 12:48 4 Mar 2019 GMT

Reuben Pinder
Hugh Jackman opened the Brit awards with The Greatest Show and audiences loved it

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THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW.

Hugh Jackman opened the BRIT Awards ceremony for 2019 with the opening number from his hit film The Greatest Showman. Whether you've seen the film or not - I'd recommend it if you like musicals, but it's not exactly Casablanca - we can all agree that the song, 'The Greatest Show', is a banger.  Perfectly crafted to lift your mood, it was the perfect opening to this year's awards ceremony and viewers both at the venue and watching at home went absolutely mad for it. https://twitter.com/DevaneiosMaya/status/1098315024190369792 https://twitter.com/itslxurenjade/status/1098315119908524044 https://twitter.com/_ThisIzMe_/status/1098314244079132672 https://twitter.com/heightsfarmali/status/1098315461584916486 https://twitter.com/topgooner100/status/1098313648265662466 Jackman, of course, is coming to Dublin for THREE gigs as part of his 'The Man. The Music. The Show' world tour in May and there are a very limited number of tickets available on Ticketmaster here. As if we didn't already love him enough, meanwhile, just last month, he sent a lovely message to one of his biggest Irish fans, seven-year-old Emma Cooney from Lucan in Dublin, whose mother posted a video of her singing 'A Million Dreams' to Jackman on Twitter, prompting the following response from the great man... https://twitter.com/RealHughJackman/status/1083029459115171841
Hugh Jackman opens the Brit awards with The Greatest Show