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She's done 3 West End plays, a couples of films, 2 series of Mr Selfridge and played Maria in Sound of Music Live on ITV at Christmas. Considering she was going to use the money from Strictly to train for another career, it worked out pretty well for her
![]() Fantastic. Can't believe I missed The Sound of Music live was on! Watched the Julie Andrews film with my daughter over Christmas, she loves it as much as me now. Have just found a youtube clip of Kara singing 'The Hills are Alive' and she's really good!
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The Actors who won Jill, Tom and Kara have all done really well on stage and TV. If I was an agent of a young actor about or thinking about leaving a soap this year Strictly is a great shop window.
But l would say that Ricky Whittle has done even better being in American shows like the 100 and now the lead in American Gods |
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As it has been for Georgia, I admit I didn't realise she sang as well as soap acting. Did she go to stage school? I just presumed she hadn't as she didn't seem to have had much dance training prior to Strictly.
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While I don't think his career boost was directly from being on the show, Chris Hemsworth was on the Australian version while he was still in soaps, and now he's Thor and probably one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. (Not a great dancer though, if an average score of 19/40 is anything to go by)
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Fantastic. Can't believe I missed The Sound of Music live was on! Watched the Julie Andrews film with my daughter over Christmas, she loves it as much as me now. Have just found a youtube clip of Kara singing 'The Hills are Alive' and she's really good!
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As it has been for Georgia, I admit I didn't realise she sang as well as soap acting. Did she go to stage school? I just presumed she hadn't as she didn't seem to have had much dance training prior to Strictly.
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While I don't think his career boost was directly from being on the show, Chris Hemsworth was on the Australian version while he was still in soaps, and now he's Thor and probably one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. (Not a great dancer though, if an average score of 19/40 is anything to go by)
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Can't believe I missed The Sound of Music live was on! Watched the Julie Andrews film with my daughter over Christmas, she loves it as much as me now. Have just found a youtube clip of Kara singing 'The Hills are Alive' and she's really good!
She was brilliant in it - the whole cast were great. I really enjoyed it when it was on - hopefully they'll do another one this year too. They might have it on demand still if you want to watch the whole thing - might be something to do over the Easter holidays. Hope you can find it and enjoy!
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While I don't think his career boost was directly from being on the show, Chris Hemsworth was on the Australian version while he was still in soaps, and now he's Thor and probably one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. (Not a great dancer though, if an average score of 19/40 is anything to go by)
![]() Perhaps I'd better not look up any clips of him actually dancing to ruin the image
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She was brilliant in it - the whole cast were great. I really enjoyed it when it was on - hopefully they'll do another one this year too. They might have it on demand still if you want to watch the whole thing - might be something to do over the Easter holidays. Hope you can find it and enjoy!
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I really enjoyed it and thought it was very impressive as it was all live. I probably shouldn't admit this, but I think I actually preferred it to the film.
I read a review of Breakfast at Tiffanys with Pixie and they said she only had 2 songs, so it may be more of a role for an actor who sings a bit rather than a singer who acts a bit. They also said most of her dialogue was unintelligible because of the American accent, so it will be interesting to see how Georgia does with that. ![]() I must admit Holly Golightly with a Bury accent crossed my mind But perhaps I'm being unfair to Georgia, I've only watched her on Strictly talking in her strong natural accent.
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Does Jay has anything line up ? Other than the bbc sport relief that I heard about ?
Like who is his PR I really thought he would've had a bunch of projects by now so I'm really surprised and confused ![]() Imo Alesha, kara, Abbey, Tom chambers, Russell, Ricky whittle tremendously benefitted from the show. They had really smart agents with them. |
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Does Jay has anything line up ? Other than the bbc sport relief that I heard about ?
Like who is his PR I really thought he would've had a bunch of projects by now so I'm really surprised and confused ![]() Imo Alesha, kara, Abbey, Tom chambers, Russell, Ricky whittle tremendously benefitted from the show. They had really smart agents with them. |
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Ricky Whittle is now a tv regular in America and just got given his first lead in a series. Even a fairly unpopular contestant from a fairly unpopular series can use the show as a springboard if they play the publicity right.
(Though wouldn't say he was so unpopular - he was runner up )
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Here you are Sarah, courtesy of Monkseal.
(Though wouldn't say he was so unpopular - he was runner up )That was a genuine question. I remember some negative publicity soon after the finals. He should have won, I think choreography let him down. |
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That was a genuine question. I remember some negative publicity soon after the
finals. He should have won, I think choreography let him down. |
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I think being arrested on assault charges with around a month of the show to go hurt his chances far more than the choreography.
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That was a genuine question. I remember some negative publicity soon after the
finals. He should have won, I think choreography let him down. |
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That was a genuine question. I remember some negative publicity soon after the
finals. He should have won, I think choreography let him down. However doing Strictly did raise Ricky's profile, added to his CV and as other posters have said will have helped him financially as well. It likely did assist him in making a go of things stateside and he's a rare success story out of all the former soap actors who head to LA. |
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Did he gain???
? Never mind lol.And some posters above elaborated on that so yes I would say that Ricky really benefitted from the show. |
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Does Jay has anything line up ? Other than the bbc sport relief that I heard about ?
Like who is his PR I really thought he would've had a bunch of projects by now so I'm really surprised and confused ![]() Imo Alesha, kara, Abbey, Tom chambers, Russell, Ricky whittle tremendously benefitted from the show. They had really smart agents with them. |
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I'd forgotten she said that!
Fantastic. Can't believe I missed The Sound of Music live was on! Watched the Julie Andrews film with my daughter over Christmas, she loves it as much as me now. Have just found a youtube clip of Kara singing 'The Hills are Alive' and she's really good! ![]() |
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What do you think he would excel at?
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Yes. He's doing well in the US as an actor ; he's a regular in a great tv series. He's even dating the ex of Jared Leto's brother ( Shannon leto) .. ..why am I even mentioning this
? Never mind lol.And some posters above elaborated on that so yes I would say that Ricky really benefitted from the show. |
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I loved The Sound of Music live as well. Kara was one of my favourite winners - she was so talented but also had a very warm and likeable personality IMO. It's a shame it didn't work out for her and Artem, I really did think they were genuinely in love and like Flavia and Jimi they didn't try and "sell" their relationship to the media.
![]() Completely agree with you about Kara and Flavia. Whereas despite having a new stage role Georgia still seems determined to promote her relationship with Giovanni as well, and that she needs gravy on her chips I'm a northerner and back in the 90s we had chips and gravy every day for secondary school dinners (healthy ), not sure it needs to be Instagram fed to the public and media though! Anything for attention.
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I loved The Sound of Music live as well. Kara was one of my favourite winners - she was so talented but also had a very warm and likeable personality IMO. It's a shame it didn't work out for her and Artem, I really did think they were genuinely in love and like Flavia and Jimi they didn't try and "sell" their relationship to the media.
Personally I've no problem with anyone making a few quid in the celebrity mags if people are interested enough to want to read it. |
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http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebri...tem/exclusive/
Personally I've no problem with anyone making a few quid in the celebrity mags if people are interested enough to want to read it. |
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Yes, they did a couple of Hello shoots when they first got together (I imagine the money came in handy for all the flights back and forth to LA etc.) but I think they learnt pretty quickly that it's not a good idea to invite people into your private life too much as it just encourages the press to cause trouble when they get the chance. I think they only posted about 3 photos of themselves together on social media during nearly 4 years together and Kara hasn't mentioned her latest relationship on there at all.
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I really thought he would've had a bunch of projects by now 