Two tickets to Brian Cox's latest talk are on sale for £1,200

Brian Cox could have thought that the times of filling arenas had been over when he deserted his pop profession with D:Ream for a lifetime of science.

However his meteoric rise to fame as an creator and broadcaster has seen his touring inventory change into much more inflated than that of Adele and Coldplay.

Tickets to his newest speak on synthetic intelligence at Royal Pageant Corridor went on sale for £15 however are actually being bought on-line for as a lot as £1,200, together with charges. 

Tickets to Brian Cox's (pictured) newest debate have gone on sale on-line for as a lot as £1,200 per pair, when charges are included

His talks are actually commanding bigger charges than his gigs did when Mr Cox (left) performed keyboard for pop act D:Ream 

At £438 every, excluding charges, they had been on sale for thirty instances their face worth, which is a much bigger enhance than even Coldplay followers are compelled to endure 

At £438 every, excluding charges, they had been on sale for thirty instances their face worth, which is a much bigger enhance that followers for even the world's largest music acts.

Resell tickets for Adele at Wembley in July had been promoting on Viagogo for £1,319.99 - however that's solely six instances what they initially bought for at round £225.

Coldplay's solely UK gig in 2017 will likely be in Cardiff and tickets had been initially on sale for round £80, however equal seats are actually accessible on Getmein! at £550. Which means they're solely round seven time the preliminary worth.

Cox's different dates are additionally oversubscribed, with tickets to his personal Wembley gig, on the SSE Enviornment, on sale for £438.90 on Getmein! - 11 instances the face worth.

Resell tickets for Adele at Wembley in July had been promoting on Viagogo for £1,319.99 - however that's solely six instances what they initially bought for at round £225

However the physicist, who's an Superior Fellow of particle physics within the College of Physics and Astronomy, is much from comfortable concerning the enormous mark-ups.

He took to social media to inform followers that they'll nonetheless get inexpensive tickets to his Royal Society debate at Royal Pageant Corridor, entitled Machine Studying and Synthetic Intelligence. 

He wrote on Twitter: 'A number of individuals are telling me they're getting ripped off by ticket reseller websites for my tour. There must be none above fifty quid and plenty of decrease.'  

Viagogo have defended their enterprise mannequin, arguing that it helps others promote their tickets and that anybody who buys one thing has the precise to promote it.

Nonetheless, a spokesman advised the Sunday Occasions: 'Whereas a vendor can listing a ticket at any value he likes, it doesn't suggest the ticket will truly promote at that value.' 

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