Mark Evans, who made the final of BBC TV’s Eurovision 2009 national selection “Your Country Needs You”, will participate in a nude charity calendar. “To help children in hospices is such a good cause”, justifies the young singer. The calendar will also promote a summer festival – “The Gwyl Festival of Hope”.

The calendar will also feature the members of Only Men Aloud, a male voice choir, entertainer Shan Cothi and pianist Annette Bryn Parri. Other nude models will be celebrity chef Dai Davies, David Kempster, Robert Arwyn, London International Orchestra conductor Toby Purcer, and comedian Tudur Owen.

The idea for a calendar was born after a conversation among festival committee members. The details about how people can buy their copy and how much it will cost, have yet to be announced.