Harry Clayton-Wright writes about his new show Mr Blackpool's Seaside Spectacular, Southbank Centre 8 November '25

Harry Clayton-Wright writes about his new show Mr Blackpool's Seaside Spectacular, Southbank Centre 8 November '25

Growing up in a town that feels like living on a movie set, the access to spectacle of the highest order certainly finds its way into your bones – from Hot Ice, to Funny Girls and the Blackpool Tower Circus, where the ring goes down and floods with 42,000 gallons of water – I’ve always loved entertainment. Some of my very first jobs were on Blackpool Promenade: performing on a ghost train for four years, dressing in a mascot costume and being ru…