Naughty Pippa Middleton is named as sinner of the year alongside Nadine Dorries, Lance Armstrong and Sally Bercow
By Toni JonesPublished: 15:15 BST, 27 November 2012 | Updated: 13:56 BST, 28 November 201251
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After being crowned the unofficial ‘Rear of the Year' by many in 2011, Pippa Middleton has been given another accolade by her not so adoring public: the Sinner of the Year.
Kate's little sister and girl about town Pippa joins a list of ‘society offenders' being named in a
production of the Japanese opera Mikado by the English National Opera (ENO).
Other 'sinners' named and shamed in the annual comedy production include Celebrity Big Brother contestant and wife of the Speaker Sally Bercow, disgraced drug-cheat cyclist Lance Armstrong and
mik4d login I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here loser Nadine Dorries.
From rear of the year in 2011 to sinner of the year in 2012, at least according to the English National Opera
29-year-old Pippa ‘s verse reads: ‘And the sister of the Duchess who has brought out a new book/ It's not sold well at all but her back cover's worth a look.'
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Richard Suart, 61, the actor and opera singer playing High Executioner Ko-Ko who will read the list, told The Telegraph that anyone who has, ‘slightly stepped out of line or fallen off their pedestal' will be included.
Gaffe prone Sally bercow (left) and MP under fire Nadine Dorries (right) are also named in the Japanese operatic production
He said: ‘Some people are very generous about appearing. Others I fear may never speak to me again.'
Pippa was rumoured to have been given a £400,00 advance for her entertaining bible, but the party guide managed to sell just 2000 copies in the first week and hit the bargain bins the large bookstores within days as retailers slashed the price in an bid to boost flagging sales.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong pictured in 2011 before he was stripped of his Tour de France titles The Mikado is at English National Opera from 1 Dec. More information at websiteAn introduction to the Mikado from the ENOJust over 125 years since its initial record-breaking run, The Mikado remains Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular operetta.
For a fifth of that total time, it has also been virtually synonymous with Jonathan Miller's inventive and stunningly stylish song-and-dance staging, first gracing the London Coliseum stage in 1986.
Wittily transposing the topsy-turvy Victorian values of Gilbert's mock-oriental Town of Titipu to a Marx Brothers-inspired take on the denizens of a very English 1930s seaside hotel, Miller's much-loved production returns, two years after celebrating its silver jubilee.
The starry cast of seasoned veterans and fresh-faced newcomers is led by ENO's resident master of the comic patter song, Richard Suart, who this season celebrates his own 25th anniversary in the role of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, who famously performs his ‘Little List' of people who ‘will not be missed'.
Set in the fictional location of Titipu, the story follows Nanki-Poo, in search of Yum-Yum, a beautiful girl he's fallen in love with. Things take a turn for the worst when Nanki-Poo learns that Yum-Yum's guardian Ko-Ko, who had been condemned to death under the Mikado's law against flirting, has since been appointed Lord High Executioner, a post awarded to Ko-Ko on the assumption that he won't chop his own head off.
In his new status, Ko-Ko is allowed to marry Yum-Yum. While Nanki-Poo continues to woo her in private, the obedient, beautiful Yum-Yum is caught between fidelity to Ko-Ko and her genuine love for Nanki-Poo.
The action takes place amid a dizzying journey through Titipu society and its corrupt politics, complete with charming songs, beheaded dancers in black tie, screaming school girls and Ko-Ko's Little List.