Lord of the Screen

Factleys:

In an episode of I’m Alan Partridge, Flatley was awarded the title "Favourite Lord" ahead of Lord of the Rings and Lord of the Flies. Alan Partridge went on to parody Rhett Butler’s famous line in Gone With The Wind , saying, "Flatley my dear, I don’t Riverdance."

Don’t be fooled by his twinkle-toed ways, he’s also a trained boxer!

In 1989, he set a Guinness World Record for tapping speed at 28 taps per second. When this record was broken, he set another record in 1998 with 35 taps per second. That too was beaten, and Lord of the Dance has not challenged it. Yet!

Legs eleven? Legs bleedin’ gazillion more like! He entered the Guinness Book of World Records again in 2000 for having the highest insurance premium placed on a dancer’s legs at a whopping forty million US dollars.

He and his wife Niamh (also a dancer) had their first child in April 2007, Michael St James Flatley, or Lord of the Dance Jr., as we prefer to call him.

In 2000, he was awarded the prestigious 'Coq Flamebee' by the Sorbonne in Paris. And no, this has nothing to do with him being hot stuff in the bedroom (although going by his moves we’d say he is). Rather it was awarded for his commitment to the furtherance of Franco-Irish relations. Mind you we read that last one on Wikipedia so…