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cloud . . . Panto dame Christopher Biggins is secretly pleased that he won’t be taking to the stage this festive season owing to Covid. ‘2020 is going to be a miss for me and pantomime, ’ he tells me at the first night of musical Sleepless, A Musical Romance at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre. ‘It’ll be nice not having to wear all those costumes for a while. I’ve got a bad knee and I’m supposed to go for an operation, so that will give me a lot of time to recuperate — which is good. We’re going to come back in 2021, bigger and stronger.’ Oh yes he will . . .