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THE SHOW must go on, right? No matter what happens the performer has to push their worries aside and get their act together. . .

Glasgow drag star Kevin Brannigan has also created a huge comedy character in Big Angie. However, Brannigan’s resolve is being tested to the limit these days.

Having found himself signed up to star on the stage as part of the Merchant City Festival in Glasgow, no sooner was the

East Ender ready to announce details on his social media account, than hackers broke in and captured his domain.

And the result has left him higher than a eunuch – and dryer than a freshly talcumed bottom. “I was hacked,” he reveals, “losing not only 31, 000 plus followers but content from Big Angie’s earliest days, tonnes and tonnes of feedback from people all over the world, and nostalgic memories and private messages I couldn’t get back.”

Brannigan is certainly down. But not out. Spurred on from the success of his Beauty and the Beef comedy sketches he wrote for the BBC, he is determined to let the world know Big Angie won’t lay down, unless a lot of superlager is involved.

And his latest show, Big

Angie: Me, the Polis & the Priest has to be seen. “It downloaded into my brain as I carried my messages across the street,” he recalls. “I saw it all so vividly: the title, the story, the beginning, the middle, the end and all the bits in between.”

Now, in the process of rebuilding his social media page, he has to let people know it’s on. “That social media was my beating heart, but I’m determined to kick start it once again,” he says, in stoic voice.

Kevin Brannigan, The Old Fruitmarket, July 28.