Four television stars are coming to Sussex for an evening of “laughs and songs”.

Bradley Walsh, from The Chase and Gladiators, Brian Conley, from The Brian Conley Show and EastEnders, Shane Richie, from EastEnders and comedian Joe Pasquale will come to The Congress Theatre in Eastbourne as The Prat Pack.

Inspired by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford, the UK stars are hitting the road for a country wide tour.

“Packed with laughs and songs”, and backed by a 15-piece band, the show will let the audience in on the banter between some of television’s best-loved stars, who are also close friends.

Bradley Walsh said: “People are starved of our type of entertainment - songs, stories, jokes - and banter. It's an homage to the Rat Pack but brought up to the modern day, and it's a fantastic night.

“We are just thrilled. We all share the same dressing room - we're mates. We've known each other for so long now - and the show is about warmth and family. It's great, really great.”

Walsh was joined by his three friends and the Barry Robinson Big Band for a one-off show at the Palladium in London in March, and the idea was born for a full-on Prat Pack tour.

Walsh, Conley and Richie were all Pontins Bluecoats earlier in their careers and Pasquale was a Warner’s Greencoat, giving them all a grounding in variety before decades-long careers at the “very top” of entertainment.

Bradley Walsh said: “The show harks back to the 1950s and ‘60s - the Rat Pack era of Sinatra and the gang. The four of us have been mates for over 40 years now and we have a combined age of around 250 years, so a quarter of a millennium.

“The only time we were on the same show was in 1993 for the Royal Variety Performance. I've been desperate to put something together like this for so long.”