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0 Celebrity Karaoke Club Series 2 Press Pack Interviews CELEBRITY KARAOKE CLUB | SERIES 2 | PRESS PACK INTERVIEWS Contents CELEBRITY KARAOKE CLUB | SERIES 2 | PRESS PACK INTERVIEWS 1 Starting Line Up OLIVIA ATTWOOD 2 AJ ODUDU 3 TANYA BARDSLEY 5 AMELIA LILY 6 SONNY JAY 8 BRIAN DOWLING 10 MAX & HARVEY MILLS 12 Featuring celebrity cameos from Liberty X, B*Witched, Hear'Say and Blue Under strict embargo until Tuesday 29th June Credit: Celebrity Karaoke Club S2 starts at 9pm Monday 5th July on ITV2 and ITV Hub Imagery can be downloaded from www.itv.com/presscentre/itvpictures 1 Celebrity Karaoke Club Series 2 Press Pack Interviews OLIVIA ATTWOOD ● WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO TAKE PART IN CELEBRITY KARAOKE CLUB? DID YOU WATCH THE FIRST SERIES OF THE SHOW? ○ I am someone that loves karaoke. All of my friends and family know, if there’s a microphone going on a night out I’ve got my hands on it. I watched the last series and it just looked like such a blast. I was trying to do the first series but it conflicted with something and I was gutted so when this one came around, and my agent called me I was like ‘yes, I need to do this!’ And she was like ‘Are you sure you wanna sing in front of people, you can’t sing!’ ● ARE YOU ONE TO TAKE TO THE STAGE AND PICK UP THE MIC? DID YOU HAVE ANY NERVES AT ALL? ○ No. I’m a bit of an exhibitionist & attention seeker, I’ll admit it! The only thing that made me nervous was my agent texting me before I went in saying ‘are you ok? Are you nervous?’ I was like ‘Why? Should I be?’ Once I got into it I was fine. When I heard myself on the microphone for my first song, I was like ‘Oh god, is that what I actually sound like?!’ ● WHAT CAN VIEWERS EXPECT FROM THE SERIES? ARE THE STAKES HIGHER FOR SERIES 2? ○ Just watching the most random group of people, who would probably never be together in a room, on a night out, drunk! Basically. ● HAVE YOU EVER DONE KARAOKE BEFORE? DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY MEMORIES? ○ I’ve done it a lot, I’m a karaoke veteran. I’ve done karaoke in Marbella where I was allowed to get up on the bar. I had the whole bar going nuts and it wasn’t even a karaoke bar. I was singing Sweet Caroline and everyone was loving it. It’s an absolute classic. Brad was fuming, he was like ‘That’s my karaoke song!’ ● WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BRING TO YOUR PERFORMANCES? ○ Really strange and unattractive dance moves and lots of passion. I left everything on that stage, I was exhausted when I finished! I could barely breathe. It was absolute carnage! I actually spent a week in bed after filming it. ● WHEN YOU SAW YOUR COMPETITORS/FELLOW JUDGES FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHO DID YOU THINK YOUR BIGGEST COMPETITION WAS? ○ I’d heard Sonny Jay was in a boyband when he was younger and it turned out he could actually sing quite well. And AJ [Odudu] I was buzzing to see her as she’s such a laugh but I just knew that she could be a rival for the performance because that girl can bring it! And Amelia Lily, she’s a singer! I was like ‘This is wrong, this is cheating’. ● WHEN JUDGING YOUR OTHER COMPETITORS, WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR FROM THEIR PERFORMANCES? ○ I liked all of them so much for different reasons. When I went up to vote I used to panic and just went for who might have voted for me. I was fuming when Max & Harvey put me down as the worst in episode one! I put them as my favourites, I couldn’t believe it! I thought they were Jedward when they arrived, which is probably why they tried to vote me off. ● WHO DID YOU GET ON WITH BEST IN THE COMPETITION? ○ Brian Dowling. I’m such a super fan from watching Big Brother back in the day. And Tanya, because she lives nearby now. Sonny [Jay] & AJ [Odudu] as well, as I knew them - it was nice to see familiar faces. ● DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY MOMENTS FROM FILMING THE SHOW? 2 Celebrity Karaoke Club Series 2 Press Pack Interviews ○ There’s so many! I knocked over a lamp at one point and the bulb smashed. Oh and throwing champagne over everyone was a highlight for me, probably not for them though. ● CAN YOU SUM UP THE SERIES FOR US IN 3 WORDS? ○ Hilarious, debaucherous and humiliating AJ ODUDU ● WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO TAKE PART IN CELEBRITY KARAOKE CLUB? DID YOU WATCH THE FIRST SERIES OF THE SHOW? ○ I just love karaoke so much! I’ve been on dates to karaoke, I’ve bonded with friends at karaoke. Karaoke is designed for people who weren’t born with the lungs of Beyonce so this is my moment to sing without getting told to shut up. I’d seen some of the first series of the show and I wanted to do it but I was busy filming for Rock The Boat at the time. So I remember thinking if it comes round again, I am definitely going to do it. So I knew about the show, I wanted to do it year one and hey, the timing was perfect this year so I just jumped at it. I grabbed the mic and all of my sequins and just went for it. ● ARE YOU ONE TO TAKE TO THE STAGE AND PICK UP THE MIC? DID YOU HAVE ANY NERVES AT ALL? ○ No nerves whatsoever, I just threw myself into it, I mean I just think karaoke is such a feel-good thing to do. I just thought what better way to be filled with joy than to pick up a mic, sing all of my favorite songs, wear really flamboyant outfits and meet new people. I just was like ‘I get to go off and hang around a bunch of people and we are just going to sing and have drinks?’ Count me in. ● WHAT CAN VIEWERS EXPECT FROM THE SERIES? ARE THE STAKES HIGHER FOR SERIES 2? ○ I think viewers can expect a lot of glitz, glamour, fun, laughter and just pure unadulterated joy. ● HAVE YOU EVER DONE KARAOKE BEFORE? DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY MEMORIES? ○ I mean I have done karaoke before but in a very tragic way because there are a couple of places I know in London that stay open way later than anywhere else and it’s always a karaoke bar. So I have often been on a really fun date where we’ve gone for a few drinks and it’s like ‘ah we don’t want the night to end! But where do we go next?’ and I will always be that person, I'm like ‘I know just the place’ and instead of somewhere really fancy or romantic, I just drag them to a karaoke bar. Why not? It’s got sticky floors, cheap booze. The writings on the wall and it’s just so much fun! So yeah, dates essentially. No guy should feel special if I’ve taken them to a karaoke bar because I take them all to a karaoke bar. ● WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BRING TO YOUR PERFORMANCES? ○ I am going to bring a lot of energy and feathers, sequins, laughter and some Northern flair. ● WHEN YOU SAW YOUR COMPETITORS/FELLOW JUDGES FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHO DID YOU THINK YOUR BIGGEST COMPETITION WAS? ○ I mean there was Amelia Lily who is a certified singer as far as I am concerned so I was like ‘Oh, there’s singers here’! So it’s not that I felt she was my biggest competition per se but I just thought if anyone can sing, it’s Amelia. I also thought Bryan Dowling, as he can win the crowd over just by being funny and super camp and essentially they were all like really big characters so yeah I didn’t think it would be a walk in the park for me at all. ● WHEN JUDGING YOUR OTHER COMPETITORS, WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR FROM THEIR PERFORMANCES? ○ I was looking for commitment, that is it. I wasn’t looking for perfect vocals or perfect dance routines or anything like that. I was just saying who is having the most fun? Who’s committing to the song, to the performance? Who’s going for it? That’s what I was judging. ● WHO DID YOU GET ON WITH BEST IN THE COMPETITION? 3 Celebrity Karaoke Club Series 2 Press Pack Interviews ○ I feel like we all got on really well. I loved Olivia Attwood. I really got on with her, I just thought she was really hilarious and Suzi Ruffell. I just really warmed to her. I’ve worked with Suzi a couple times so it was great to see her in an entirely new environment just going for it. Mark Francis- like what an unlikely character for me to get on with! You know, we are like two different ends of the spectrum. I’m a Northern lass from a working class background, and he’s posher than posh but we got on really really well. I loved him! Tanya [Bardsley], honestly all of them. I feel like we all had a laugh. ● DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY MOMENTS FROM FILMING THE SHOW? ○ Oh my gosh! There were a few celebrity cameos from bands in the 90’s.