A YOUNG entertainer who works at one of the country's largest holiday camps is to be featured in a national television programme next month.

Jon-Lee Horan, 23, will be seen keeping thousands of holiday makers happy in a Channel Four documentary called The Seasiders.

The series of six programmes follows a group of professional entertainers throughout the season at a camp called Primrose Valley, near Scarborough.

Jon-Lee, of Farholme, Stacksteads, has showbusiness in his blood and comes from a family of musicians and extroverts. He has already worked three seasons at holiday camps. The DJ and compere is hoping the television appearance will help him land a job as a television presenter.

Proud mum Lynn Hoyle said: "Singing and dancing must be in the family blood.

"My father, Tommy Eastwood, was a well-known pub pianist in Rossendale.

"Jon-Lee's older brother Gareth also works for Haven Holidays and he will be in Cornwall this year.

"This will be the fifth season he has done and he has been promoted.

"He is now a host and compere." Jon-Lee's sister Leanne recently appeared as one of the ugly sisters in Rossendale Amateur Youth Society's production of Cinderella

Lynn, her husband Peter, and her three other children travel across the country each summer to watch Jon-Lee and Gareth in action. Younger sister Kristen, 13, has won the family return trips in talent contests at the holiday camps for the last three years on the trot.

Lynn added: "I might be biased but Jon-Lee is brilliant when you see him at work.

"Primrose Valley is one of the biggest camps in the country and the room Jon-Lee was working in last summer can hold thousands of people."

The Seasiders will be shown from next Friday.

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