Al Porter has been replaced in the panto Polly & The Beanstalk by actor/comedian Rory Cowan.

Cowan is best known as gay son Rory Brown in Mrs Brown's Boys, but recently announced that he was leaving the top-rating show. Cowan was best known for corpsing or appearing shocked whenever Agnes Brown looked him in the eye and made a rude remark or went off-script.

Cowan said he was "very happy to be joining the cast of the Olympia Theatre panto. I am a huge panto fan and treading the hallowed boards of The Olympia is a privilege for me".

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