EXCLUSIVE: Diana Vickers, currently starring in a new Gwyneth Paltrow musical, says her X Factor experience, while she loved it, was still a lot of pressure for a 'nervous' 16 year old
She is now a darling of the West End stage, following her impressive stage debut, in The Rise And Fall of Little Voice in 2008 - still one of her favourites to date. But it was in 2008, when Diana Vickers was just 16 and still had a penchant for big beehive hairdos, that she appeared on The X Factor , and quite swiftly became a household name.
Diana admits that she’s happy, over 15 years later, that after what’s been a difficult journey at times, that she has been accepted into the theatre community and isn’t just “that girl off The X Factor”. But she is also the first to agree that Simon Cowell ’s seminal talent show was a huge springboard for her career. Diana was mentored by Girls Aloud’s Cheryl in the Girls category and came fourth, in the same year as Alexandra Burke, JLS and her former boyfriend Eoghan Quigg.
She says: “I was really young, and being judged in front of a lot of people – all these adults, telling you their opinions. But I really enjoyed it. And even back then I was able to say, ‘Diana, it’s just a TV show,’ which was healthy. I took it all with a pinch of salt. I remember I’d get quite nervous onstage. Even now, I’m super-confident but I have an anxious side, which people are surprised about.
Her iconic look, of course, with that famous bird’s-nest hairstyle, led to show judge Louis Walsh calling Diana a “little hippy”, which she laughs about now.
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