THE ONLY WAY IS ST HELENS!
professional and I am going to get this right and the audience it going to love this panto.
TOWIE STAR AMY CHILDS TO APPEAR IN ST HELENS THEATRE ROYAL’S CHRISTMAS PANTO, ALADDIN
Are you going to sing? (Laughs) Oh no, god no, I can’t sing, at all. I wouldn’t put the audience through that, no no no.
The Only Way is Essex star Amy Childs will be bringing dazzling beauty and glamour to St Helens Theatre Royal when she appears in Aladdin, from Saturday, 3rd December 2016 to Sunday, 8th January 2017.
You’re playing the Slave of the Ring, do you like your character? Oh god yes, it’s perfect really. I am playing myself but in a fabulous costume and headdress – so how far can I go wrong? I do love my character, it’s good to play fun characters, it’s me, but an extreme me.
Amy Childs, will be starring as the Slave of the Ring in the magical family pantomime while Harry Derbridge will play the hilarious PC Noddle. Amy chatted to our editor Joy Lewis about her glamous costume, learning lines and how much she is looking forward to her first pantomime. Hi Amy, how are you? Oh great, thank you for asking. This headdress that I’m wearing for my character in Aladdin, is really heavy, it’s giving me a headache – but it’s so amazing, that I don’t want to take it off. My whole costume is amazing, I love it, it’s so glamorous. Have you been to see St Helens Theatre Royal yet? Yes I have, and I love it, it’s beautiful in there. Seeing it makes me look forward to Aladdin even more. Is this your first panto? Yes, I’ve never done panto in my life, so I’m really nervous. But I’m so excited this is really different than what I normally do in my life – I’m a busy girl and learning my lines is going to be difficult, I can’t really act to be honest, people think I’m an actress but I’m not, TOWIE isn’t scripted which always surprises people. The last script I learnt was as school, if you walk into my house there are post it notes everywhere with my lines, but you know I’m a
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Will you be staying in the area or doing lots of traveling back and forth? Nope, no traveling, it will be too much I think. So, I’m in Liverpool for the whole month, my family will be joining me for some of it , and I’ve got a group of them coming up on Boxing Day so it’s all going to be fun. Plus I really like Liverpool for nights out, so I’m going to enjoy it up here I think. So could this be the future for you, do you like the idea of theatre? Never say never. I really like to try new things, I thought I would be terrified but I’m not. I do like the idea of theatre though so you never know. Everybody has been so nice, we are all preparing to work really hard to make this panto work, and it’s something I am really enjoying so far. But if this is the only panto I ever do I know it will have been a fabulous experience. Aladdin runs at St Helens Theatre Royal from Sat 3 Dec 2016 – Sun 8 January 2017.