Fans of Sabrina Carpenter and Luke Littler have finally got the crossover event they’ve been looking for at Hyde Park this summer.
British darts world champion Little will be joined on stage at the BST Hyde Park Open House with fellow darting superstars Luke Humphries, Fallon Sherrock and Michael Van Gerwen.
That coincides with the musical aspect of the festival which includes Carpenter and an abundance of musical megastars in Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo, Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan and Jeff Lynne’s ELO.
Little and Co will be taking part in the inaugural PDC Hyde Park Darts Championship on July 8 as the ever-growing sport continues to capture new audiences.
The darts itself will also have a sprinkling of celebrity as it will be a pro-am event where the sports biggest names team up with famous faces from outside of the sport.
So far Olly Murs, Roman Kemp and Dion Dublin have been announced as the amateurs.
In fact, Littler has an argument to be the most famous face on stage when it comes to his home UK audience.
In 2024 he was the most Googled athlete in the country, and an astonishing third overall.
Catherine, Princess of Wales was top with returning US president Donald Trump second, while Sir Keir Starmer was in fourth behind Littler despite being elected as the country’s new prime minister.
Carpenter, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen in the overall UK list, yet she was the second-most Googled musical act behind only the reformed Oasis.
That’s despite the 25-year-old American having possibly the biggest hit of the year in Espresso.
That and her other hit, Please, Please, Please broke a UK record, as she was the first female artist to hold one and two in the charts for three consecutive weeks.
The former Disney star has had a rapid rise to fame, but nobody’s year was quite so startling as Littler who started 2024 with a runners-up finish to Humphries at the PDC World Championship, having started the tournament at the age of 16.
He went to prove that the final wasn’t a fluke at all as he won three PDC Premier Events during the calendar year to earn him undisputed status as one of the best darts players in the world.
Then, to start 2025, he went one further at the Blue Riband World Championship, thrashing Van Gerwen in the final to claim dart’s biggest prize.
The teen talent has now pocketted well over £1million in prize money, and is showing no signs that the celebrtiy is impacting him.
Tickets for the The Hyde Park Darts Championship go on sale on May 2, and after that we’ll wait and see how long before Littler is announced alongside Carpenter at Coachella 2026.
