Christopher Biggins looks ahead to Grand Theatre panto

He is the nation's best known panto dame and in just a couple of months time Christopher Biggins will be heading to Wolverhampton.

He will be starring as Widow Twankey in a production of Aladdin at the Grand Theatre which runs from December 11 until January 30.

Ahead of his star turn he visited the Express & Star where he revealed he can't wait to take to the stage.

Ticket sales are already up 14 per cent on last year's production of Cinderella which bosses have put down to to the "Biggins effect".

The star will be joined in the region by his close friend and Hollywood icon Joan Collins who is starring in this year's performance of Dick Whittington at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

It was Christopher Biggins who told her to give pantomime a try and he says she is looking forward to the role.