A woman has told the ECHO how she swapped pantomime for property investment and now has a portfolio of buy to let homes and holiday lets running the length of the Lancashire coast.
Kristina Castellina, who now lives in south Liverpool, moved from the Midlands and Scotland as a child before heading to Blackpool with her family in her teens.
It was in the seaside town that she fell in love with performing, but it wasn't until she was a singer in a band in London, living gig by gig, that she started to look at jobs elsewhere.