SIXTIES crooner Ronnie Hilton became a soap star.

But the artiste, who enjoyed hits with songs like Don't Let the Rain Come Down, was not joining the cast of Coronation Street or EastEnders.

He was instead up to his eyes in real soap as Wishie Washie in the pantomime Aladdin at King George's Hall, Blackburn.

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