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Les Dennis (left) is to make his English National Opera debut in October, when he appears in Gilbert and Sullivan’s . The actor and comedian, familiar toand as former host of TV’s , will play Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty who hopes to marry Josephine. He will be by no means the first celebrity to have trod the G&S boards…

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