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It's not every day you get to become a superhero, so aback Alesha Dixon was offered the allotment of a long-lost Powerpuff Girl, she accepted it with accessible arms.
I accommodated Alesha in the flat afterwards addition shoot with the Cartoon Network crew. The abounding name of her Powerpuff Babe persona is Blisstina Francesca Francis Barium Aliza Utonium. That’s absolutely a affirmation and a agitative claiming for little ones watching at home. For now, Alesha brand to accumulate things simple.
“Her name is Bliss,” she laughs.
“She’s the long-lost big sister of Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.”
Alesha will accommodate her articulation to the angry appearance for bristles episodes, apparent back-to-back in a distinct day as allotment of a Power Of Four special.
Ten years afterwards her abstruse disappearance, Bliss allotment to Professor Utonium in Townsville to apprentice the accurate backbone of her admiral and prove herself to the world.
Alesha’s beam is infectious. As is her affection for bartering adolescent girls, including her four-year-old daughter, with a absolute changeable role model.
“I’ve watched The Powerpuff Girls with my little girl, Azura, and she’s a big fan. It’s a win-win,” she smiles.
“She looks at pictures of Bliss and says, ‘Mummy, that’s you.’”
Alesha rose to acclaim beneath the boring of the millennials, bearing hit afterwards hit with the all-girl bandage Mis-Teeq afore activity abandoned with top tunes Breathe Slow and The Boy Does Nothing.
But her portfolio stretches able-bodied above the microphone. In 2007, she stepped out in the fifth alternation of Strictly Come Dancing and blanket the appearance (and the trophy) with able brawl accomplice Matthew Cutler.
We appetite to do it aback bodies don’t see it coming. Mis-Teeq’s music takes bodies aback to a moment in time, maybe school, their adolescence or university
Two years later, she alternate to adjudicator new celebrity contestants beneath the beam ball, and anon afterwards took her position at the captain of one of the country’s favourite shows, Britain’s Got Talent.
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“When you booty allotment in Strictly, you become allotment of the Strictly bubble,” she says.
“The apple alfresco doesn’t exist. Everything is beam and sparkles and sunshine. It was an honour and a joy to be allotment of it.”
New music is on the border with a appointment to the flat this division and according to Alesha, 39, the afflatus begins abaft bankrupt doors.
“I’m an ‘in the moment’ person,” she reveals.
“Whatever needs to apparent itself will acquisition its way out in my music. That’s a big allotment of actuality artistic – I aloof let things flow.”
Alesha’s music aftertaste goes far above her roots of rap and R’n’B. Jazz and reggae comedy through her speakers, but there’s consistently one song ashore in her head.
“Right now, it’s Wild Thoughts by Rihanna. That’s the adorableness of music. You can accept to whatever makes you feel acceptable in whatever times you’re activity through in your life.”
Along with a arranged account and new tunes to trial, Alesha has bound a children’s book about a accustomed little babe with amazing superpowers. Aurora Beam does acceptable accomplishments by cutting activity and ablaze beams from her fingertips.
“When I set out to address this book, I looked at what superheroes are out there for girls,” she says.
“I don’t anticipate you can anytime accept abundant able characters for girls to attending up to.”
Alesha wants to assure adolescent readers that no adolescent is alone, no amount what botheration they have.
“We all accept our own superpowers, aloof like Bliss and Aurora. We can do acceptable and advice anniversary other. That’s the bigger picture, isn’t it?”
This year, Alesha travelled to Ghana with ActionAid to attack adjoin adolescent marriage. She met boyish girls who were abducted, abused and affected to ally strangers. Some never see their families again.
“I absolutely adulation what ActionAid stands for,” she says.
["614.98"]“I heard some absolutely adamantine stories, but I came home activity absolutely hopeful.”
The girls who were rescued from this fate went aback into apprenticeship and are alive to clean their lives. Alesha sees her role as the messenger, to acquaint the girls’ belief and advance the chat to stop it accident again.
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“It’s accessible to booty for accepted all the blessings that we have. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t anticipate about that. The things I saw andthe belief I heard will never leave me.”
Back on British soil, Alesha is already gearing up for addition year of Britain’s Got Talent.
“I’ve got the audience dates in abutting year’s account already,” she laughs.
“It’s so agitative to apperceive that it’s aloof about the corner.”
This year’s top aptitude Tokio Myers won over the nation, and Alesha’s heart, with his arresting piano music. Abutting series, the brilliant has hopes that a actor actor will win the show, which, apparently, is the hardest affair to do. “When a altered act wins it keeps the antagonism open,” she says.
“I achievement that inspires bodies to booty part. You could accept a altered aptitude that we haven’t apparent before.”
Alesha, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and David Walliams accept advised calm for six series, and it’s a bout fabricated in heaven.
“We’ve got a nice accent activity on. The badinage is abundant and we account anniversary other, too.”
We’re to apprehend added fun from David this year as he hasn’t accustomed up on blowing poor Simon.
“Can you brainstorm anyone abroad aggravating to battle Simon out of his armchair or giving him a lap dance?” she asks. “Simon is acclimated to it now. It’s like baptize off a duck’s back.”
As the aggregation attending advanced to a reunion, will Mis-Teeq anytime accomplish a comeback? They angry bottomward The Big Reunion, but never say never...
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“We’d adulation to aggregation up again, it’s aloof what, and when,” she says.
“We appetite to do it aback bodies don’t see it coming. Mis-Teeq’s music takes bodies aback to a moment in time, maybe school, their adolescence or university. Our music brings aback memories.”
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Had the brilliant not begin her voice, she knows absolutely which aisle she would accept taken.
“I capital to be a teacher,” she says.
“Before I abutting the bandage I was belief sport, so I would accept accomplished my apprenticeship or maybe approved athletics. Jessica Ennis-Hill is one of my heroes.”
Alesha doesn’t accept in plan B, anyway. She had a focus, formed appear it and begin herself area she is today.
“Even if you accept to booty a altered road, it’s about alive appear the things you affliction about. It’s easier to cross your way through activity aback you chase your gut instinct.”
So, what’s her abutting goal? Perhaps a new Powerpuff Girls movie?
“That would be absolutely cool,” she grins.
That’s her abutting dream, but for the time actuality there’s her new accumulating with Little Black Dress and affluence of added projects to get ashore into.
“I get a bang out of accomplishing altered things. My academician doesn’t apperceive how to about-face off, so I get artistic and adore the fun.”
["611.1"]The Powerpuff Girls featuring Alesha Dixon premieres today at 3.31pm on Cartoon Network.
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