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Before her untimely death in 2015, CILLA BLACK was a huge panto favourite but she never forgot the time she was upstaged by a cheeky child during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk. Playing Jack, when it came to slaying the giant, she turned to the audience and asked: "What shall I do with him, kids?" To which one bright spark yelled: "Sing to him!" The late DES O'CONNOR was playing panto in Birmingham when he suffered chest pains and thought he was having heart trouble and saw a specialist. He recalled: "It turned out that I had pulled a muscle in my chest? by throwing sweets to the k...

>> actually, it's you think so, ho? [ laughter ] >> are you kidding me with this? okay, your hand is perfect but it's more -- >> are you kidding me with this? ho. ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ [ laughter ] >> so, cher aside, when it came to playing jack and that role, who was really groundbreaking in terms of i don't know that the country had ever really seen an lgbt character like that. did you feel any sense of responsibility? >> it was interesting. this is a nine-hour interview question, but i did. i was conflicted at that time.