She’s more used to performing in the hopes of perfect ten scores and rapturous applause, but this Christmas, Strictly Come Dancing professional Katya Jones would rather audiences boo and hiss at her.
That’s because she is swapping salsas and sequins for horns and poison apples as she waltzes into the panto role of the Wicked Queen in Snow White, being staged at Middleton Arena between Manchester and Rochdale.
“The more boos I. “If the audience doesn’t boo, it means I’ve failed and haven’t been bad enough.”