
Jake will be joined by NTR audience favourite Chris Johnson, as Belle’s father – Professor Ivar Brainstorm. He has also recently been announced as ‘Willard’ in the upcoming 2022 UK Tour of Footloose. Jake’s theatre credits include Peter Pan a Musical Adventure at Blackpool Opera House (2017), the nationwide tour of Hair the Musical (2019), and host of Dance to the Music, starring Kristina Rihanoff, which visited the New Theatre Royal (NTR) in 2020. He has also become a regular guest and co-presenter on TV shows including ITV’s Lorraine, Loose Women, and Big Brother’s Bit On The Side, whilst appearing on Hollyoaks, The Full Monty (On Ice), MTV’s Celebrity Bumps, and most recently Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins. Flash Hugo (Jake Quickenden) & Singit Sisters Since then, alongside releasing music, Jake has become a household name after finishing runner-up in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (2014), and being crowned the winner of Dancing On Ice (2018). Jake first broke onto our TV screens on The X Factor (2012), making it to the judges’ houses, before reaching the live shows in 2014.

Jake will star as baddie Flash Hugo, an arrogant, self-loving, egotistical, ladies’ man who will stop at nothing to win the hand of Belle.

But Lincoln’s longest running traditional pantomime is back this Christmas, with their largest ever cast including the popular Jake Quickenden.

A star-packed cast is heading to the New Theatre Royal Lincoln for their Christmas pantomime Beauty & the Beast, running from Tuesday 7th December 2021 – Sunday 9th January 2022.ĭue to the pandemic, pantomimes up and down the country were unable to go ahead in 2020.
