As this summer’s Pride season draws to a close, 40,000 revellers packed Cardiff city centre park for the annual Mardi Gras – now in its eleventh year.
Welsh teen Lloyd Daniels, a finalist in last year’s X Factor, become Cardiff Mardi Gras’s new heart throb, whilst Gareth David Lloyd, alias Torchwood’s late Ianto Jones, rocked the park with his band Blue Gillespie.
Together with a host of other stars including former Corrie actor Adam Rickett, X Factor’s Same Difference, Andrew Stone (from SKY 1’s Pineapple Dance Studio and who helped Big Brother 11’s contestants make a video this summer), kept the main stage buzzing throughout the day 'til 10pm.
Speakers on stage included MP Chris Bryant and Cardiff Council leader Rodney Berman.
Shirley Bassey’s boots, worn by the Welsh dame at Glastonbury two years ago, proved to be a popular attraction on the National Museum of Wales’s market stall/
After dark the parties continued across the city in the various gay bars and clubs, and a street party in Churchill way.
