Denise Welch is to join the cast of Nottingham Theatre Royal and Crossroads Pantomimes’ 2024 production Peter Pan as Captain Hook.
A regular panellist on ITV’s Loose Women since 2001, Welch will be appearing in her first panto for 12 years.
Earlier in 2024, she played Corral in Jim Cartwright’s The Gap at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester. In 2019, she was Celia in Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls the Musical.
She joins the previously announced Gok Wan as the Magical Merman, comedian Paul Chuckle as Starkey and comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett as Smee in Peter Pan which will run from Saturday 7 December until Sunday 12 January 2025.