No professional pantomime would be complete without a TV personality or two.
Bradford this year has former Emmerdale actress Malandra Burrows, Halifax boasts Darren Day, and Colne has a former Bill star.
Sutton Amateurs are getting in on the act by using TV "celebrities" for their panto Dick Whittington and His Cat.
The cat appeared on Blue Peter and Alderman Fitzwarren has been a BBC foreign correspondent.
Emma Waters, 12, of Eastburn, was seen dancing on Blue Peter when it was broadcast from Blackpool last summer.
The South Craven School student was one of the contenders for a place in a Gareth Gates video.
Neil Hellewell, who plays the Alderman, did a telephone interview for the BBC's "Holiday -- You Call The Shots" during its programme about Toronto.
Neil, of Steeton, was also interviewed for Calendar News, while picking up tickets from Bradford City FC on the day chairman Geoffrey Richmond quit.
Dick Whittington runs from December 4-7, at St Thomas's Hall,
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