Media Coverage
The One Show, BBC ONE
22 March, 2019
BBC's The One Show visited Planet Circus at Stoke-on-Trent in March 2019 to find out about life working in one of the UK's largest touring circuses, as part of a story about Disney's Dumbo directed by Tim Burton and starring Danny de Vito.
Kizzy and Tilly, together with other Planet Circus acts, were seen performing and talking about their work and life in the circus.
Watch it HERE
King Pole magazine cover
March 2019 edition
Tilly and Kizzy on the front cover of King Pole magazine in March 2019, published by the Circus Friends Association.
They're pictured on static double trapeze high in Zippos Megadome at London Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland, for Cirque Berserk's Inferno. (December 2018 to January 2019).
Photograph by Piet-Hein Out
BBC Breakfast News and BBC Look East
'Their lives in each other's hands'
4 September 2018
BBC Look East spent a morning with Tilly and Kizzy Packham for a TV news story about their unusual career as professional circus aerialists and their passion for performing.
Reporter Jasmine Gardiner interviewed them about how their careers in circus began, the pressuress of touring and life outside the ring.
Featured in the news report were the Morales on high wire and wheel of death, juggling Centners and Rivelinos clowns. The story also ran on BBC Breakfast News. Click below:
King Pole double-page feature
September 2018 edition
In June 2018, Gemini Sisters Tilly and Kizzy were guest artists in a spectacular production of the hit musical Barnum in the Circus Fantasia Big Top in Ipswich, staged by the largest youth musical theatre group in the UK.
Their double synchronised silks and double static trapeze acts wowed audiences and won acclaim in reviews.
King Pole magazine had a double-page article about the production.
BBC Radio Essex interview with Sadie Nine
30 August 2018
Kizzy and Tilly were guests of the day for a 40-minute interview and phone-in with BBC Radio Essex morning show presenter Sadie Nine, while they were performing in Essex with Circus Fantasia.
They talked about working together as sisters and the physical demands of performing as aerialists in a touring circus.
BBC Radio Norfolk interview with Chrissie Jackson
9 August 2018
On tour in their home county of Norfolk, Kizzy and Tilly were invited to chat to Chrissie Jackson on BBC Radio Norfolk about their extraordinary career as aerial performers. Discover how they got started and about life on tour with a major circus.
Eastern Daily Press feature
9 August 2018
Kizzy and Tilly talk about performing together as sisters and working in circus. See the feature here.
BBC Radio Suffolk interview with Lesley Dolphin
28 June 2018
Gemini Sisters Kizzy and Tilly guest starred in the hit musical Barnum, providing the wow factor with specially staged aerial silks and double trapeze acts high above other performers.
Presented by award-winning musical theatre group, the Co-op Juniors Theatre Company in the Circus Fantasia big top, the show was a huge hit with audiences.
The sisters visited BBC Radio Suffolk to talk about their life and work with presenter Lesley Dolphin.
East Anglian Daily Times feature about Barnum the musical, featuring Kizzy and Tilly Packham
22 June 2018
Kizzy and Tilly worked with the director of the hit musical, Barnum, to integrate spectacular aerial elements for the show. It was staged in the Circus Fantasia big top at Wherstead Park, Suffolk in June 2018. See more about it here.
See the feature here.
