Lesley Joseph signed up for Belfast panto

And as Lesley Joseph has been signed up as the ultimate baddie for what promises to be a truly wicked pantomime – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - tickets are already being snapped up.

Lesley will join panto legend May McFettridge, who this year marks her 21st Grand Opera House pantomime, alongside Aidan O’Neill and Paddy Jenkins for Northern Ireland’s biggest Christmas show which has already sold over 12,000 seats, nine months in advance of its opening night.

Although her appearance in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sees Lesley Joseph make her Belfast pantomime debut, she has previously appeared at the theatre as the legendary Miss Hannigan in the musical Annie. The television and stage actress, who was part of the Grumpy Old Women team in the final of last Saturday night’s Sports Relief Let’s Dance competition, is currently touring the UK in the sell-out musical Hot Flush!

Lesley has starred in countless plays and musicals as well as numerous television and radio programmes. Although she is best known as the neighbour from hell, Dorien Green, in the hugely -successful BBC sitcom, Birds of a Feather, she has also appeared in Night and Day, What Not to Wear, My Bare Lady and Ready, Steady, Cook. She has also presented reports for BBC Breakfast and GMTV and is infamous for serving up a disastrous main course and dessert on Channel 4’s Celebrity Come Dine With Me!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs runs at the Grand Opera House from Saturday, December 4 to Saturday, January 22

Tickets can be booked by telephone on 9024 1919, online at www.goh.co.uk or in person at the box office located in the Grand Opera House foyer.