June 4th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Alison Crawford, Grease Is The Word, Michelle Antrobus, Vicky Hoyles
The two girls voted off Saturday nights Grease Is The Word have spoken to the press today to state that they believe the show has been fixed from day one.
Shocked Alison said: “I think the judges have had an agenda from day one. They’ve known all along who they wanted for the parts regardless of how anyone else performed. All the contestants know it - it’s so obvious.
“I didn’t expect them to get rid of me like that. I wanted…a fair decision. That didn’t happen.”
Alison also told The Daily Mirror newspaper that she believes the judges are tryoing to kmake sure that Susan McFadden and Danny Bayne win the show. Read more & comment »
April 28th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Alison Crawford, Anthony Kavanagh, Grease Is The Word
The first pair trying to convince you that they would make the perfect Danny and Sandy is Anthony Kavanagh and Alison Crawford.
Anthony and Alison were paired up by the Judges on the last day of Bootcamp because they felt that despite Anthony’s obvious singing talents he lacked confidence and his dancing techniques weren’t up to scratch so they hoped that by pairing him with confident scouser Alison, she whip him into shape an get him ready for the live shows. Read more & comment »
April 23rd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Alison Crawford, Grease, Grease Is The Word, itv
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. Read more & comment »