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A14 PEOPLE / ARTS
Wednesday 5 February 2025
‘Riverdance’ tour celebrates its 30th anniversary with a pair of

siblings leading the way

By MARK KENNEDY Both were veteran winners
AP Entertainment Writer of Irish dance competitions
NEW YORK (AP) — Before when they joined “River-
they hit the stage every dance” in 2017, Fergus a
night, Irish siblings Anna few weeks ahead of Anna
Mai and Fergus Fitzpatrick Mai.
share a special ritual: A “That was an incredible
hug and a low five. feeling to get to share the
“Like a high five, but in- stage and have that expe-
stead of going high with it, rience together,” she says.
we go lower just to be dif- “It’s hard to describe it to
ferent,” Fergus Fitzpatrick another person. There’s an
says laughing. understanding of that feel-
It’s a sweet way to check ing between us.”
They never knew life with-
out ‘Riverdance’
The “Riverdance” tour that
kicks off this month in Flor-
ida will visit over 40 North
American cities, including
two weeks at the Kennedy
Center in Washington D.C.,
Siblings Fergus Fitzpatrick, left, and Anna Mai Fitzpatrick appear in costume for “Riverdance 30 and performances at Ra-
The New Generation.” dio City Music Hall in New
Associated Press York City.
in for a brother and sister that put Irish dance on the er. So we’re like siblings, There also are stops sched-
dancing duo who are pro- global map and has deep- but we’re also like best uled for Chicago, Phila-
pelling “Riverdance 30 The ened their bond. friends,” says Fergus. “We delphia, Toronto, Boston,
New Generation,” a tour- “Me and Anna Mai have always have that support Indianapolis and Kansas
ing celebration of the show grown up dancing togeth- system.” City.q

Christie Brinkley has a memoir out in April. Yes, it’s

called ‘Uptown Girl’

By HILLEL ITALIE And, yes, she’s calling the on hundreds of maga-
AP National Writer book “Uptown Girl.” zine covers, from Sports Il-
NEW YORK (AP) — Christie “I wrote ‘Uptown Girl’ to lustrated to Vogue. She’s
Brinkley will have a memoir inspire readers to create also known for such films as
out this spring, tracing “ev- the life they want, which “National Lampoon’s Va-
ery adventure and twist of is what I’ve always tried cation,” her turn on Broad-
fate” from her rise to be- to do, not through fortune way as Roxie Hart in “Chi-
coming a supermodel to or fame, but by saying yes cago,” and her cameo in
her acting career to her to adventure and trying to the 1983 video of Joel’s
marriage to Billy Joel. find the magic in every mo- “Uptown Girl,” a top 10
hit widely associated with
her. (Joel has cited Brinkley
and fellow supermodel Elle
McPherson as inspirations.)
Brinkley has been married
four times, most recently to
This cover image released b Peter Cook, whom she di-
HarperCollins shows “Uptown vorced in 2008. According
Girl” a memoir by Christie to Harper Influence, an im-
Brinkley. print of HarperCollins Pub-
Associated Press lishers, she will reflect on
“her whirlwind career, her
ment, no matter how big four tumultuous marriages
or how small,” Brinkley said including her heartbreak-
in a statement Tuesday re- ing divorce from Billy Joel
leased through Harper In- and the harrowing experi-
fluence, which will publish ences (a 1994 helicopter
her book on April 29. crash) that almost cut her
Brinkley, who turned 71 this life short.”
week, has been a celebrity “In ‘Uptown Girl,’ she
for half a century, since she chronicles the unexpect-
was discovered in Paris by ed, unexplainable ways
photographer Errol Sawyer. her life has unfolded,q
Her image has appeared