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Hungry to gain more experience, and only doing a silent act to music I decided I needed more experience of talking to people to grow my confidence. My Auntie who I had spoken to about this saw an article in a magazine called “The day in the life of a Butlin’s Redcoat” and sent it to me. 

After reading the magazine article and seeing that so many famous entertainers started out as Redcoats I decided to try to become one myself. I auditioned and got the job as a Redcoat entertainer at Butlins in Bognor Regis. This was the best apprenticeship that I could have wished for, as I was on stage every night, entertaining thousands of people that were on holiday each week.

I volunteered for every show that I could and worked the very long hours asked of me knowing that this would help my future career in the business. I soon learnt things that would have taken me years to pick up, elsewhere, like microphone technique, stagecraft and how to handle audience members (good and bad.)

Whilst there, I put a bit more time into my comedy and started writing gags and routines. As anyone in comedy knows, you have to get out there and try your material on people and it couldn’t have been better as being at Butlins, I could try out my new gags and magic on the ever changing audiences, as Butlins were getting around 14,000 day visitors let alone the 9,000 people staying there every week.