John Barrowman: Saucy Asides

TELLY hunk John Barrowman has launched a furious attack on “miserable” critics of his naughty panto patter.

The Scots-born Torchwood and Doctor Who star hit back after his cheeky on-stage double entendres were branded “smutty”.

Defiant Barrowman, 46, said: “People like that are just miserable bastards. They need to get over it.

“Or just don’t come back — we don’t need you.”

The US-based star lashed out after coming under fire from fellow festive show favourites and a disgruntled fan.

Orville the Duck ventriloquist Keith Harris, 65, insisted: “Panto is for kids but they don’t get smutty jokes made by people like John Barrowman.”

Veteran telly comic Jim Davidson, 59, added: “Panto’s a chance to be funny without being filthy.” 

But the actor was unrepentant — and promised more saucy asides at this year’s production of Dick McWhittington with The Krankies at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium.

He said: “These jokes go right over the crossbar of the kids, while all the adults sit there chuckling.

“The only reason kids laugh is they see their parents laughing away.

“That’s just old school panto and The Krankies are brilliant at delivering that sort of stuff.”

But John — who married long-term partner Scott Gill in California in the summer — admits he did receive one complaint during last year’s Jack And The Beanstalk run.

He said: “We had a letter saying I was making gay references and was being crude.

“I find it strange they didn’t complain about jokes about one of the girl’s boobs.”

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Fagburn recalls seeing that grand pantomime dame, John Inman, on TV once saying pantomime innuendo was "self-cleaning jokes".
Rather well put, I thought.