Tickets for Alan Carr at the Astor Theatre in Deal sold out in less than an hour.

Fifty tickets, at a price of £13.00 each, went on sale online at 5pm on Wednesday and had sold out by 6pm.

A further 125 tickets were available via telephone and the box office on Thursday morning.

Astor Theatre Artistic Director James Tillet said: “We opened at 9am on the Thursday and the telephone did not stop ringing. We had people queuing up at the box office too.”

The chatty man will be taking to the stage in Stanhope Road on Thursday, February 13 to try out his new material in preparation for his forthcoming tour.

Mr Tillet who has knew that the star was coming to Deal for some time said: “I have used Off The Kerb Productions before, I sent them over some free dates we had and was told to keep the 13th free, as they had somebody very chatty that they thought we’d like!”

The show titled Work in Progress will be an intimate gig, with doors opening at 7pm and the show starting at 8pm.