Well Andrew, can I get a bit of an air high five, a little celebration and a woot woot?
Woohoo!
Yes.
Is that a high five?
Kind of, isn't it?
I like it anyway.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Absolutely brilliant.
How did it feel to step on that stage?
To step on to the stage.
Oh my goodness me.
Honestly, I was saying earlier to friends of mine that I think the younger you are when
you do things like this, you're very fearless and to go on the stage...
I did this stupid thing.
It's not a stupid thing, but I did this silly thing of not bringing anybody with me and
with Britain's Got Talent, you can bring your teachers, you can bring anybody, but I went
on my own because I think I've done a few of these shows before and been rejected from
them.
I always have that having to pick my family up from being kind of like so upset, and then
you've got to explain.
So I just thought, do you know what?
I'm going to do this on my own, and then of course what happened is the opposite to what's
happened before, and I got an amazing reaction, so I was kind of celebrating on my own, but
the answer to your question is...
It was the most overwhelming feeling ever, and I was on such a high.
It was just brilliant, and especially to get that reaction from Simon.
As a diva, what are your diva-ish...
Loving you calling me now a diva.
Can I have some coffee, please?
Excellent.
I was going to say what are your most diva-ish tendencies, if you have any?
Just a bottle of Evian will do me darling, just a nice bottle of Evian.
I don't like Highland Spring, but I love Evian water.
No.
Do you know what?
I just think...
I'm quite fussy when it comes to sound because I always like to sound good.
I've done these gigs before.
I did one about four weeks ago in a restaurant in the city of London, where it was a breakfast
lunch, and I had a guitarist with me, and there was about 60 people.
Nobody was really listening to me, and it was so funny because it was in the morning,
and you can imagine I'm quite loud and vocal anyway.
But I was trying to sing, and they said to me.
What they wanted me to do was sing very, very quietly.
People are trying to eat their breakfast, and so really sit back on it, and I'm thinking.
Oh my God.
I really need the money because I need to pay my rent.
I can't start cancelling gigs at this stage, but I just don't know if I can sit there and
sing so quietly.
So it was really funny, so the microphone was up at a level initially when I started
singing, and by the end of that set, the microphone was literally off, and I'm looking at the
woman.
Can you turn my music, can you turn my sound up?
It was hysterical.
Needless to say, sound is quite important.
Someone's going to turn you down.
I would not be having of that.
-Do you know what I mean?
-Yeah, of course.
People ignoring me as they're eating their egg muffins.
It's like this is just not the way my life was meant to be.
It's embarrassing.
Who can't an egg muffin with a big voice?
Come on.
Thank you.
It's eight o'clock in the morning.
Who doesn't want to hear my voice at eight o'clock in the morning?
My boyfriend doesn't want to hear my voice at eight o'clock in the morning.
You did say on the show, and this was something I was quite happy to hear.
You love the Queen.
Let's talk about this obsession.
I love the Queen.
I think, as well, people would probably assume that I'm making it up.
I'm not saying that people would, but I've been obsessed with the Queen for a very long
time.
I love powerful women.
I love what she stands for.
I love the fact that she has her own song.
She has her own anthem.
That's what I love about her the most.
I was privileged enough...
It was the most exciting gig of my life to the Queen's jubilee, not just me.
I was in a production of We Will Rock You at the time, which I actually got from being
in Pop Idol.
I was the youngest cast member, the most amazing year of my life, getting to be in this fantastic
show in the ensemble and we got to the Queen's jubilee.
At that point, the whole of London.
There were people hanging from the fountains in Hyde Park, in Green Park.
It was unbelievable because we were in an ensemble of a musical, we were right at the
back of the stage.
There was Jude Law at the front.
In them days, there was Atomic Kitten.
There was Blu.
Actually, they're all back now, aren't they?
And I managed to push myself to the front.
I was dressed as a bohemian with a long wig.
I push myself to the front.
There was Dame Edna there and Lenny Henry there and I push...
And I was honestly.
There was actually a VT of it, and you can see me on the corner because I was telling
my mum.
I got to the front.
I was like right I'm here, and the Queen was coming up on stage and honestly that moment
in itself, that's when I became more obsessed with her.
She didn't actually get to me.
She was down on the other end, and it was just amazing for everybody in England to sing
this anthem to her and for her to just quietly, she just holds her hands and she just put
her hands and even her husband turns and sings, so I'm obsessed with her.
I love her.
I think she's fantastic, and that's why I'm here for Britain's Got Talent basically.
Don't want the money.
I want to meet the Queen.
Are you fan of Kate and Wills and baby George?
Are you following their tour of Australia?
Yeah, I love Kate and Wills and especially what Kate stands for and you know, just so
youthful and bright and fresh and I love all that, but I have to say I love older women.
I always have done.
My best friend is 67.
She's from Newcastle.
I'm always in the working men's clubs.
I like hanging around with old people.
My boyfriend thinks I'm insane, but I love it.
I used to work in a care home for dementia people.
My mum does that now, so I've had experience in a care home as well.
But do you know what?
Love Kate and Wills, but I'm a Queen fan.
Big Queen fan.
-Excellent.
We Will Rock You, so...
-Yeah, I know.
Exactly.
You mentioned X Factor.
Obviously, Britain's Got Talent, X Factor, you get a little bit less coverage with Britain's
Got Talent.
You perform three times maximum as opposed to obviously X Factor every week.
Why did you choose this instead of the X Factor?
Just because I think on this more so, I'm able to show off me, which is my personality
a lot more.
I can completely be myself, and also as well darling, I don't think my anxiety can handle
X Factor, not at my age anymore.
I mean, I literally just think it's nice to just do a couple of songs, and then that's
it.
To go through that whole three month period in X Factor.
No seriously, I think it's because personality wise, I'm getting to show the real me and
being me and also it's nice to not just be around other singers.
It's nice to have a variety show and also as well, it's the most popular show in the
UK, and it's my favourite.
It's so good.
Massive viewing figures as well.
Obviously some amazing successful acts have come through the Simon Cowell factory.
Obviously One Direction, who we love at ITN and TheShowbiz411.
What do you make of that sort of success?
That is just mind blowing, isn't it?
I mean, how them lads can just...
They actually were having coffee in Chiswick when they just finished the X Factor and things
had died down, and I was a waiter at the time in Balans in Chiswick, and I served them and
there's me serving them coffee, and I thought oh it's them from the X Factor and literally
two months after that, they were huge.
I mean, it's amazing what can happen if you are a part of these shows, so I'm just really
grateful and excited to be involved in it.
Well, a huge good luck for the next stage.
We're rooting for you.
You're amazing.
Thanks so much and lovely to meet you.