EastEnders star Shane Richie causes headaches for soap bosses after bagging six-figure panto role
thesun.co.ukSHANE RICHIE has bagged a six-figure deal to appear in panto this Christmas – in the city where he once slept rough. In a full-circle moment, Shane will play Muddles in Sleeping Beauty at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal, four decades after he ended up sleeping outside the railway station when a job as a DJ fell through.
Announcing the spot in December, Shane said: “Sleeping Beauty is a great story with plenty of opportunity for big laughs and slapstick jokes that will entertain the whole family.” But Shane will have had to beg bosses at EastEnders for the time off, as he is rejoining the soap this autumn.
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