X Factor: Kim Howlett
Age: 16
From: Manchester
Job: Student
History:
* Kim lives with her mother Carol, father Steve and brother David (19).
* She has recently enrolled on a college course to study music.
* She met her boyfriend Luke 8 months ago while on holiday in Portugal.
* She has been dancing since she was 3 years old and has performed in a dance show at the London Palladium.
* Kim auditioned for ‘S Club Juniors’ (2000) she got the last 40.
* Kim thought entering the X Factor would be a good way to make her dream of being a singer come true.
* She says the hardest thing she has ever had to face is Simon Cowell!
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[...] 16 year old student Kim has been having singing lessons since she was nine years old, and singing has always been her biggest dream and now she is closer than ever to living that dream, “this is an opportunity of a life time, I am that close to where I want to and I want to do it for my family and myself to prove that I can do it. After singing the Bangles hit Eternal Flame Sharon has some concerns, “it’s strange to me that for someone so young her presentation is so old”. [...]