I always say 'you don't have to like sweets to work in a sweet shop do you?'

Lee Moore at the Liverpool Empire (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)

I always say, "you don't have to like sweets to work in a sweet shop do you?'," says Lee Moore. Lee has worked at Liverpool's Empire Theatre for 34 years - but says theatre isn't really his thing. "I don't mind plays, musicals I don't like. You just start getting into it and then they start singing and it ruins it for me," he adds.

Whether he's into the theatre or not, Lee has worked at the Liverpool's historic Empire Theatre for 34 years. The 50-year-old from Huyton still remembers his very first day on December 30, 1991. He worked alongside his mum, Lil Moore , who was a much-loved character and another of the Empire's longest serving members of staff when she left around 2018.

Lee told the ECHO : "[When I