HAPPY MONDAYS star Bez is changing up the pace as he launches a new YouTube series learning yoga from a Lancashire journalist.

Mark Berry, better known as Bez, has been learning the discipline from reporter Amy Farnworth, who teaches yoga in her spare time, to create a new Youtube series, Mellow with Bez.

The series comes after the Bolton-born star launched Get Buzzin’ With Bez in January which received a brilliant response, with the first episode raking in over 160,000 views.

During this training, Bez expressed his interested in trying yoga and his trainer referred Bez to Amy, who began teaching him about six weeks ago.

Bez said: “I’m really enjoying learning yoga, I can feel myself getting more flexible each week. I’ve never done it before but thought I needed to try it to help me as I’m not getting any younger and I need to be able to carry on dancing on stage.

“It’s been great working with Amy, she’s a great teacher and I’m looking forward to carrying on for as long as I can.”

Amy has taught Bez more about the discipline and can see the week-on-week improvement.

Due to the lockdown, sessions took place over Zoom calls, with Amy recalling laugh-out loud moments like when his dog made an appearance. The classes had drawbacks as Amy was unable to make sure Bez was moving correctly or had the correct alignment as she would usually be able to.

Amy said: “Bez has taken to it like a duck to water. He loved it. I could definitely see an improvement week to week, and I think coupled with his healthy eating and his exercise regime he’s really made progress in every aspect of his health.

"Bez has just proven that it doesn’t matter how old you are, how inflexible you think you are, or how unfit you deem yourself to be, by practising yoga regularly it can help improve your mood, balance, posture and overall health and wellbeing."

Four episodes of the series have been filmed and are available on Youtube.