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Britain’s Got Talent Winner loving thought of south coast panto this Christmas
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08/12/2024
Britain’s Got Talent Winner George Sampson is loving the thought of panto in Portsmouth this Christmas.
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Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Groupon Solicitor at Sussex Newspapers. Difficult
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to believe it's very nearly Panto time again, but lovely to speak to Dick Whittington, no
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less. Now, George Sampson, Britain's Got Talent winner of 2008, you are Dick Whittington at
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the England's Theatre in Southsea this Christmas. And you love Panto?
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I love Panto.
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Why? What is it about it?
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I just, it's the magic. It's the feel that I know people get watching it because I've
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experienced it myself. It's knowing that you're giving kids and children their first
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time, their first experience of real theatre. And, you know, you sort of, you link all aspects
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of what you've grown up to be. I have to sing, I have to dance, I have to act. I tell jokes.
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Never tell jokes until I do Panto. It's the only time I get to tell jokes. I love it.
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Ah, well, you were saying one of the keys to Panto is the timing. That's where the timing
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comes in then, clearly.
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Well, that's it. And I always used to think I wasn't a very funny person. And I believe
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that after now, this is Panto 18, 19, I don't know, we're coming up to 20, I know that.
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And I'm sort of getting the hang of it, if I'm honest. I'm enjoying it more and more.
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And the more I do it, the more I sort of lay off and I find it a little bit cooler, a little
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bit more relaxing. And I enjoy each Panto.
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You've got to relax into it, because presumably, I'm doing all those performances.
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Yeah, and I don't get nervous as such. I never really get nervous. I sort of let the adrenaline
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take over and do my thing. But with Panto, I really do think part of it is like just
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relaxing into it. And the more you enjoy it, the more they enjoy it. And the stupider
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you feel, usually the better it is.
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Yeah. And we're saying that there's so much changing in the world, particularly in the
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world of entertainment. But you kind of feel with Panto, it's kind of constant, isn't it?
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Has Panto changed in all the years?
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No, it never changes. I mean, I remember my first Panto was Peter Pan back in 2012. And
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I mean, every one I've done since then, it's the same sort of, it's, you know, it's ingredients
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that go into it that make it what it is. And those ingredients don't change. You know,
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you can change the cast.
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And audiences don't want Panto to change, do they, I guess?
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They don't want it to change. No, no. Why? If it's not broken, don't try to fix it.
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But doesn't it wreck your Christmas? Do you get any time to relax?
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Do you know what? It's not really, no. But for me, you know, I don't really know any
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different. I've sort of, I've been on the road and just been about 14. Yeah.
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So, you know, for me, Christmas now is, I've got my girlfriend,
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Kasmin, and she lives in Surrey. So, which is only about an hour from here.
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Yeah, so I've probably spent Christmas with her. That's what I kind of try and do every
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year, spend Christmas with her. Again, just because that's sort of just, I'm one of these
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people, wherever I lay my heart, that's home. I've never sort of...
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Well, you're in the right profession then, aren't you?
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Well, exactly that. Yeah. And I think it just comes from, you know, doing it from such a
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young age. It's just sort of been all I've known, really. So, yeah, this Christmas,
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I'll be all right. I'll be with my girlfriend and we'll be in Surrey and it'll be lovely.
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Fantastic. Well, looking forward to seeing the show come December.
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George, really lovely to speak to you. Thank you.
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Thank you for having me.
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