He may not have found love on the villa, but Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard hopes his luck will change when he stars at the Wycombe Swan this Christmas.

The 23-year-old dancer will be starring in the lead role when Dick Whittington arrives at the St Mary venue on December 13.

Curtis told the Bucks Free Press: “I’m very excited to be part of the pantomime, I literally can’t wait.

“I love to perform, I love to make an audience feel good and I like to make people feel good, so I can’t wait to get on stage and get everything started.

“I’ve just met some of the cast and they seem lovely and incredible.

“They have made me feel at home which is good so I can’t wait to actually get the show on the road now and perform to an audience."

Starring alongside Curtis will be Kiera-Nicole Brennan from Channel 5’s Milkshake and Adam C Booth from the Keith Lemon Sketch Show, with the story seeing Dick having to save London from the evil King Rat, who has let his rodent friends take over the city.

And with Curtis being a professional dancer, he hopes to incorporate his dancing past into his acting.

“I think in pantomime, it’s about everything.

“Pantomimes are just great fun and entertaining things to do so I will bring my dancing background into it, there will be singing, there’ll be acting and there will be hopefully no crying but maybe there will be crying.

“One of the best things with a live audience is that you feed off their energy, which can be good, and it can be bad.

“If you have a low energy audience it can sometimes make the show low energy but then it’s our job to make them high energy to make them fall in love with the show.

“And it’s not just about you going on stage and being a robot and doing what you’ve been told.

“It’s about you bringing out your characteristics and bringing out what’s inside you and making everyone feel what you’re feeling, so there all connected and therefore it feels like a full complete show.

And finally, Curtis spoke about his experience on Love Island, where he finished fourth.

He added: “I was never a massive watcher of the show, and it is one where if you do watch it you get hooked.

“But no, I wouldn’t have changed anything as I had the best time in that villa, I loved it.

“I made friends, had laughs, cried, it was just incredible, as you experience everything.

"It's such a unique and once in a lifetime opportunity.”