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‘You either are panto, or you aren’t’: Christopher Biggins on his favourite time of year

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

Christopher Biggins has managed to bag some of the nation’s favourite TV characters over the years: Lukewarm in Porridge and Nero in I, Claudius, to name but two. Yet there’s a good chance he wouldn’t have had a career at all if it hadn’t been for his Aunty Vi. She was ‘the most terrible snob’, he tells me.

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