{"id":43175,"date":"2025-12-03T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43175"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:05:45","slug":"christmas-2025-day-3-big-fat-panto-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-3-big-fat-panto-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 3: Big Fat Panto Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas25c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>Christmas 2011<\/strong>, ITV&#8217;s <em>This Morning<\/em> got into the festive spirit with their Big Fat Panto Quiz, with a bunch of celebs who were starring in pantos around the country that Christmastime!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Paul Ross was Quizmaster, with Bonnie Langford, The Krankies, Timmy Mallet, Lynda Bellingham, Kevin Cruise and Toyah (playing the Wicked Queen), all in full panto dress\/character, answering the questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Panto is a huge Christmas tradition here in the UK. Oh yes it is!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">It just seems to grow more popular each and every year, with huge panto productions taking place at major London and Birmingham theatres every December, as well as numerous smaller productions at almost every theatre and venue in every town, city and village in the UK. Long may the tradition continue, and continue to flourish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A short clip from The Big Fat Panto Quiz is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tHpL7biI_Ic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>still available online here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Please click on the caps to view larger versions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">NB. We miss Toyah appearing in panto, though I think the last one was, <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, way back in 2012, just one year after this TV appearance. I went to a few &#8211; even travelling all the way to lovely Canterbury one Christmas &#8211; and they were always fun<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tm11c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tm11c.jpg noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tbfpq18a.jpg\" alt=\"tbfpq18a\" width=\"600\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tbfpq18a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tbfpq18a-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2011, ITV&#8217;s This Morning got into the festive spirit with their Big Fat Panto Quiz, with a bunch of celebs who were starring in pantos around the country that Christmastime! Paul Ross was Quizmaster, with Bonnie Langford, The Krankies, Timmy Mallet, Lynda Bellingham, Kevin Cruise and Toyah (playing the Wicked Queen), all in full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430],"tags":[2024,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43269,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43175\/revisions\/43269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}