Katie Price and Kerry Katona break ticket sales records as fans pay just bargain prices to see them on stage
KATIE Price and Kerry Katona’s new pantomime has broken sales records.
The longtime pals are teaming up this Christmas to play the wicked step-sisters in a production of Cinderella at Northwich Memorial Court.
The news was only announced last night but already the demand is massive.
The theatre‘s official Instagram account revealed that the star pairing is proving a hit at the box office.
It wrote: “Since our casting news broke earlier this evening, we have sold the highest number of tickets that we’ve ever sold in a single day during our last 14 years in Northwich!
“Book your tickets soon before the best seats go!
www.brioentertainment.org.”
Kerry, 44, commented: “Amazing!! [heart emojis].”
The stage stars – who met during I’m a Celebrity in 2004 – posed in character for the first time in a promotional poster released last night.
Katie told fans she’d bagged the role alongside Kerry earlier this year.
Revealing the news on her podcast, Katie said: “I’ve signed up to another panto! Cinderella!
“I’ve signed up for Cinderella and I’m one of the ugly sisters – and guess who is the ugly sister I’m doing it with – it’s Kerry Katona!”
Katie continued: “So Kerry got me the gig because she has been working with them for six years.
“And she was like ‘why don’t you come and do this panto’, and she said it was for the ugly sisters and I said ‘oh are we ugly then?’ and she said we can still be really pretty.”
Last year double bankrupt Katie landed a £60k payday for playing The Wicked Fairy Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty.
But some fans were less than impressed with her performance.
A video of her dancing out of time for the opening night, prompted critical comments from fans.
One said: “Maybe, just maybe Katie Price could learn the routines. She was an absolute disgrace.”
“Clear to see how hard the other cast members have worked .. very clear she thinks she can rock up making zero effort!!!,” another wrote.
While Kerry played Ugly Sister Butox in Cinderella at the New Theatre Royal, Lincoln.
Katie is faced with a £760,000 unpaid tax bill and was declared bankrupt for a second time in March.
She was served an eviction notice ordering her to leave her £2million Mucky Mansion by the end of May as bailiffs swooped.
She was previously declared bankrupt in November 2019.