Alexandra Burke , 35, has come a long way after she shot to fame winning The X Factor in 2008. Since then she’s released three albums, appeared in a trio of west-end hit musicals: The Bodyguard and Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017. Here, Alexandra talks about her duet with Beyoncé, doing Strictly for her mum , her latest stage role in Sister Act The Musical and taking no BS in her thirties.
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When I did the part originally, I was in my 20s and the way I played her was more goofy and quite young. But because I’m in my 30s now, the way I’m seeing Deloris is that she takes no BS and she knows exactly what she wants. I’m playing her in a more mature way.
Absolutely, darling, and I tell you where that’s come from – appearing on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2021. Doing that show changed me as a person. I tend to do things because of my family or my fans, and this was the one thing where I thought, ‘It’s got nothing to do with anybody else but me and my mental hea.
