Age:25
Job: Waitress
Location: Liverpool

“I’m close enough to looking like a Sandy but I want the audience to see further than that. I want to be able to touch people in audience with my performance and with the right attitude and support I can do it.”

The Story So Far…

* During the acting part of her first audition, David Ian thought she was a great ‘sweet’ Sandy but wanted to see if she could be ‘sexy’ Sandy too. He told her to come back on stage and act out the last scene in Grease and play sexy Sandy with David Gest. David Ian loved her performance. Brian said he could see her as ‘The Sandy’.

* At Bootcamp though, David Ian was concerned that she lacked chemistry; while David Gest was concerned that Alison’s movement around the stage may not be up to scratch.

* Teamed with a new partner, David Gest said she was ‘exciting and believable’.

History

* Alison currently lives with her boyfriend of three years in Liverpool.

* Alison has been working for the past two years as a waitress.

* Alison developed an interest in musical theatre when she was 10 years old after playing Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz.

* She has auditioned for West End plays in the past but has never got the parts due to her height.

* Playing Sandy in an amateur production of Grease persuaded her to enter ‘Grease Is the Word’, as she thought she’d played Sandy well.

What are you looking forward to about moving to the house in London?

“The whole experience. The other people involved are really great and I can’t wait to get fit, coach my voice and start performing. My experience has meant that I have been able to cope really well so far. It’s only really the unknown of the next few weeks which is difficult to cope with.”

Is there anything that you are worried about in the next stage?

“Yes, the hectic schedule. I know I need to be fit and healthy and I’m not at the moment! Also I’m worried about singing live in front of millions of people. I think that’s going to be really overwhelming.”

What makes you think you can be the next Sandy?

“I’m close enough to looking like a Sandy but I want the audience to see further than that too. I want to be able to touch people in the audience with my performance; with the right attitude and support I can do it.”

What does it mean to you to play Sandy?

“It’s amazing to be able to compete and have the chance of winning in a competition so big it could change my life forever. That childhood dream of singing in front of the mirror becomes so much more. I used to lie in bed just before I went to sleep and visualise performing to all my friends and family, past and present, when I was younger. It is so strange to think that that is actually what’s going to happen. It’s a dream becoming a reality.”

How do you think you would handle fame?

“No-one can say really until they experience it. For example your favourite band after a while become tired of answering the same mundane questions and having to ‘be’ a certain persona, because of media pressure. Then you go off them because they develop an attitude but can you blame them? I have to accept everything that comes along with my chosen career but also am aware that it will affect everything about me. I’ll aim to try and be a useful and positive figure of the public eye but sometimes because of life itself it may not be so easy!”

What’s your ultimate ambition?

“I’ve always wanted to own a yacht and go sailing around the world. I’d take the easy option of course, the gentle waters! I think I’d also like to be a deep sea scientist. How interesting it would be to find out what lies below!”

What do you think of the judges?

“They said sometimes I’m over rehearsed and I thought ‘Is that possible?’ The judges also said that my singing was perhaps not as strong as my acting and dancing.”