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Singer Jon Lee flew into the UK from America earlier this month for a very important job – learning how to fly!

The former S Club 7 star is playing Peter Pan in this year's panto at the White Rock in Hastings and top of his list of things to do was switching on the town’s Christmas lights on November 20, followed by learning his lines and practising how to look graceful while reaching for the stars above the stage of the theatre.

He's previously starred as Marius in the West End musical Les Miserables, and was Oliver Twist 12 years ago in Oliver! at the London Palladium, but Peter Pan is his first panto.

He's really looking forward to it. "Everyone can relate to him. All the kids want to be him and go and live in Neverland and not grow up. I just think it's a great fantasy for all of us. The hero is always fun to play because you tend to survive to the end of the show!"

As the only flying he's done before has been by jumbo jet – Jon now lives in Los Angeles - he's excited about learning how to fly with just a wire to aid lift-off.

The cast of Peter Pan helped switch on the Christmas Lights at Hastings' Priory MeadowShopping Centre in an event hosted by our friends at ArrowFM.

See Jon Lee, Steve Furst, Neil Brennan and Olivia Chenery turn on the lights and set off a fabulous firework display, helping get Christmas in Hastings off with a bang.

Click here to see the photos from the Hastings Observer

Click here to see the photos from Arrow FM

(From the Hastings and St Leonards Observer, Friday 7th November 2008)

The pantomime season is nearly upon us and the cast of Peter Pan at the White Rock Theatre went on a whistle stop tour of Hastings and the surrounding areas this week.

Hijacking a bus that had 10 foot adverts on either side then decorating it with bunting, banners and balloons was the first task for the stars before they set off to a local nursing home that had already bought their tickets for the forthcoming show.