Her performance was called "panto-ish" by Fox, and Simon Cowell said it was more suitable for a "children's party".

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Tony Blair joked as he began, but the panto-style scenes at the conference are a metaphor for how controversial the issue of nuclear power still is.

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My own strongest panto memory was at Birmingham Hippodrome and I was very small - no more than four.

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It was re-opened in December 2007, just in time for the Christmas panto.

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"As a person who has spent many years surprising people this is one of my greatest surprises - this time it's on me, " he said in a break from performing the panto Aladdin in Bournemouth.

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