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David Walliams, 52, sweetly smiles with his mother Kathleen, 80, as they attend the star-studded press night to watch Sheridan Smith in her new West End musical Opening Night


The comedian, 52, was all smiles as he posed for a photo with his 80-year-old mother before taking their seat in The Gielgud Theatre.

Happy Valley actor James Norton was seen congratulating Sheridan, shortly after she was joined by the her co-stars including Amy Lennox and writer Rufus Wainwright. Sheridan has begun a 21-week sting in the new musical Opening Night at the Gielgud Theatre - based on the namesake 1977 film about the actress who is left traumatised by the death of a teenage fan. Her dressing room, which she calls her 'shrine', is littered with pictures of her three-year-old son Billy and it's where she recuperates after performing her main drunk scene, which she'll improvise each night, that is so physically demanding she joked about needing to use shin pads.

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