Originally from Wales, 24 year old Francesca now lives in London where she studied at the Mountview Theatre School.

No stranger to ‘treading the boards’, Francesca has previously played Bet in Oliver, was in the tour of Tonight’s The Night and has recently finished performing in the West End production of Rent.

Francesca lives by cosmic ordering, still sucks her thumb and loves shepherd’s pie.

Originally from Edinburgh, 24 year old Ashley trained at Mountview drama school under the Dame Judi Dench Scholarship, and is now a part-time freelance drama/teacher in London.

She also worked part time in a debt collector’s office but got fired the day before her first audition. She loves doing accents and is addicted to shopping in charity shops. Ashley is scared of mayonnaise and is obsessed by Michael Buble.

A 24 year old graduate of the Birmingham School of Acting, Amy recently toured in a production of Scooby Doo where she played Velma. Amy is very close to her parents, who she grew up with in Birmingham, and feels she owes them a great deal for being so supportive.

No stranger to hard work, Amy supports herself when she’s not acting by doing various jobs – including selling ice-creams and programmes for The Sound Of Music at the Palladium in London. Amy is a vegetarian and her worst job ever was as a junior at a hairdressers.

Over the past few months Disney Channel’s My School Musical has captured the imagination of kids’ across with the UK with a staggering five thousand entries submitted. With the finale now in close sight, viewers can vote for their favourite short-listed semi finalists from the 28th March until the 17th April with the final winners being announced on the channel on the 25th April

My School Musical has seen Disney Channel scour the UK for fresh and exciting new talent across three special categories – “singing”, “dancing” and “performance” – all with a High School Musical twist. An astounding 5,820 video entries have been uploaded to the competitions dedicated microsite, www.myschoolmusical.co.uk where the best have been whittled down to three semi finalists per category. The channel has already seen over half a million kids vote for their favourites to get to the semi final stages.

Now the final three semi finalists from each category will get to perform their act on Disney Channel. The final for the “performance” category will be tonight on 28th March, the “singing” category on 4th April, and the “dancing” category on the 11th April (at 4.50pm and repeated at 5.20pm). and viewers will have one week to vote for the final winner in each category, by registering their vote at www.myschoolmusical.co.uk Read more & comment »

Pop Queen, Madonna has commented that she doesn’t think she would have stood a chance if she had auditioned for American Idol when she was just starting out.

She told New York radio station Z100: “I did it the hard way. I had to teach myself how to play the drums, I had to get into a band. [I played] in crappy little clubs for years before anybody would even pay any attention to me. [ I had to] take my tape around to record companies and have them shut the door in my face. It took a long time. I came up the hard way.”

When asked about American Idol she said: Read more & comment »

Dancing On Ice runner up, Chris Fountain, may become the latest celebrity to get paid a fortune to not write his own autobiography.

Chris revealed that he has been offered an obscene amount of money to tell some writer the story of his (quite short) life, while they then go away and do all the hard work.

He told the Daily Star: “I have done a lot despite being only 20. The money they are offering is pretty mad so who knows?

“It could all come off and be out in time for Christmas.”

Is anyone else wondering how Chris is going to stretch out tales of his Ice Hockey team, and life on Hollyoaks for a whole book? I’m not sure how riveting the story will be.

This Sunday on Vanity Lair the Lairmates take a lie detector test.

I smell trouble…….

In tonight’s episode of The Passions Of Girls Aloud on ITV2, Kimberley fulfills a lifelong dream and steps onto the West End stage with a role in hit musical, Les Miserables.

Watch her get ready for her big moment in the clip below….

The Passions of…Girls Aloud, tonight on ITV2 at 10pm.

British composer, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is to jet off to America in two weeks time in order to make an appearance on US TV show, American Idol.

Lloyd Webber will appear on a live link-up from Las Vegas to the Los Angeles AI studios.

Sir Andrew is currently judging on BBC’s talent show, I’d Do Anything and he hinted to The Sun that the BBC may not have been too happy with his extra-curricular activities, saying: “I told them my dates and just said, ‘I’m going!’”

It’s hard to know who to believe today. The Mirror have published an article saying that Leona Lewis has just made her first million pounds, while the Sun is saying that she hasn’t got enough money to buy a house in her native Hackney.

The Mirror say that she bagged her first million after the royalty checks came rolling in for her hit number one single, Bleeding Love, which has also just hit number one in the US charts.

However The Sun is saying that Leona had to pull out of a house sale as the vendor upped the price by £100,000 to a total of £600,000 after they found out who she was. Leona then couldn’t afford to buy the house with her long term boyfriend, Lou.

So who do we believe? Well Leona’s dad has rubbished the millionaire claims saying: Read more & comment »

Graham Norton has revealed that he was shocked when X Factor judge, Sharon Osbourne, launched an attack on fellow judge, Dannii Minogue while on his chat show.

Graham told The Sun: “I was just amazed.

“I called Sharon up afterwards and said, ‘Are you alright?’ Believe it or not, we actually had to edit quite a bit out!”

Helen Speight, a contestant from BBC TV show, The Apprentice recently had a boob job in order to boost her confidence, The Sun reports.

A colleague of Helene told the newspaper:

“Helene wasn’t shy to show pictures of her new assets.”

And last night a source on the BBC show said: “Helene’s not embarrassed in the slightest.

“She thinks if it makes you happy and feel more confident, good luck.”

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has recently worked with the BBC on some of their highest rated shows, so you can see why they would want to tie him down to their channel.

However, when the Beeb tried just this, Sir Andrew turned them down point blank, The Sun report him as saying:

“This isn’t my day job – I’m not Graham Norton.”

Well it’s not like he needs the money is it?

So the girls are debating about which of the boys they find fanciable from this years male Apprentice team.

Who do you like the look of? It would have to be Alex for me….yum yum!!!

After watching this clip of pompous little Nicholas from The Apprentice, I am so glad that I won’t have to watch him on TV again!

I suppose he would have to blow his own trumpet though, by the look of him no one else would do it for him!