Harman was eight when, while at the Alexander Academy of Dance and Drama in Croydon, London, the principal introduced him to an agent who took him on.<\/p>\n
“My mum and I made a pact that we would go to six auditions,” he said, “and the sixth one was an OXO advert, which I got.<\/p>\n
“That was it really and I’ve been doing this ever since, I don’t think there’s been a year since I was eight that I haven’t worked.”<\/p>\n
But he has not been in a professional panto since he was 11 when he appeared as one of the Babes in the Wood at the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon, where Richard Briers played the dame.<\/p>\n
But, he said, it was his father who was the main pantomime influence.<\/p>\n
“He loved panto,” he said, “and we’d see three, four, sometimes five a year, and then he would write and direct them in the local village hall and I’d be in them growing up.<\/p>\n
“Every year I did panto at the Woldingham Village Hall in Surrey, playing anything from Humpty Dumpty to Simple Simon to whatever [role] needed to be filled.<\/p>\n
“So I’m no stranger to it at all but this is the first time someone’s paid me to do panto as an adult.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harman was eight when, while at the Alexander Academy of Dance and Drama in Croydon, London, the principal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-331265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}