By Bella Brennan

Congratulations are in order for Australian sweetheart Nikki Webster, who has revealed she and her husband Matthew McMah welcomed a son called Malachi four weeks ago.

Nikki, 30, made the surprise announcement during an appearance on Sunrise this morning.

The star, who rose to fame during the 2000 Sydney Olympics thanks to her incredible performance of Under Southern Skies, hadn’t even confirmed she was pregnant so it was a double whammy of exciting news.

“I am super happy. I have my princess Skylah and Malachi,” Nikki explained to weather presenter Sam Mac.

Malachi joins big sister Skylah, three.

According to Nikki’s mum Tina, Skylah is a dead ringer for the singer.

“Nikki was virtually identical to this one,” Tina told Woman’s Day in 2015.

“Except Skylah has more hair. I had to stick a bow to Nikki’s head with sticky tape because she had no hair!”

It’s been a huge year for the mother-of-two after she relaunched her classic noughties banger, Strawberry Kisses, in April to help raise money for the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

“We certainly had no intention to widely promote the song with the aim of a chart position,” Nikki, who runs her own dance school, explained to The Music of the sentimental reboot.

“[It was] simply [to] have a bit of fun and allow people to reminisce for the purpose of supporting a worthwhile charity in Starlight Australia.”

“I think its something people needed at this time, a chance to have fun and think about fun times shared with friends over a song when they were young.”

A huge congrats to Nikki and Matthew on the safe arrival of your son, we hope he’s getting lots of strawberry kisses!

Source: nowtolove.com.au

Nikki Webster turns 30

The former child star plans her big musical comeback after 17 years

It’s been almost two decades since petite and wide-eyed Nikki Webster wowed the crowds at the Sydney 2000 Olympics opening ceremony, flying high above spectators in a pink dress.

Now, Woman’s Day can reveal a stunt for the Sunrise weather team last week – which saw Nikki re-record her chart-topping hit Strawberry Kisses – is just the start of a career resurgence for the iconic singer and dancer.

Not only has the song, which spent seven weeks at the top of the charts in 2001, found a new generation of fans, but Nikki is hoping it’s the catalyst for the next phase in her career.

Continue reading I’m back and better than ever!

Strawberry Kisses has been given a 2017 makeover and for that, we say thank you Nikki Webster.

By Chloe Lal

What a time to be alive.

Just one month ago, Nikki Webster blew our cotton socks off when she decided to traipse up the Sydney Harbour Bridge and delight us with her angelic voice, singing her classic hit Strawberry Kisses.

And it turns out the nation had been missing those kisses.

Continue reading The re-boot the world needed: Nikki Webster gives the people what they want with her new jam

Written by Emmy Mack.

Ah, the year 2000. It was a simpler time, a pre-Trump, pre-9/11, pre-meme world full of innocence and the kind of post-Y2K carpe diem that promised endless possibilities.

And if anyone was the embodiment of that lost zeitgeist, it was little Nikki Webster, the pretty-in-pink primary-schooler who had the weight of Australia’s hopes and dreams on her shoulders when she kicked off the Sydney Olympic Games with the patriotic power ballad, ‘Under The Southern Skies’.

As we all fondly remember, after being thrust into the international limelight, little Nikki embarked on a short-lived post-Olympic pop career which delivered us the spectacular 2001 hit ‘Strawberry Kisses’, DIY schoolyard versions of which would go on to soundtrack little lunches and big lunches for years to come.

Flash forward to now, and Webster has re-emerged like a shining beacon of light to re-inflate the hearts that 2016 and ’17 have so jointly stomped into the dirt with hope and joy once again.

Continue reading Grown-Up Nikki Webster Belting Out ‘Strawberry Kisses’ With The ‘Sunrise’ Crew Is Kind Of Amazing

Early 2000s child pop-icon and centrepiece of the Sydney Olympics, Nikki Webster, has suddenly and inexplicably reappeared in the Australian cultural landscape, along with her biggest hit, the 2001 confection ‘Strawberry Kisses‘.

Just yesterday she appeared on Sunrise, at the top of the Harbour Bridge, for some reason, and accompanied by rapping dad/weatherman Sam Mac. High above the city of Sydney, like pop’s prodigal daughter returned, she busted out the tune in some very on-trend French braids to the absolute glee of everyone participating.

And now, joy of joys, the 29-year-old has announced to 2Day FM’s Em and Harley that she is very keen to release a “2017 take of Strawberry Kisses“.

Is this what Australia needs? A sweet sixteen remix of a song that was so sweet to start with, it gave a generation aural tooth decay? Is this what will save us from the bleakness and horror of 2016?

In this reporter’s opinion: yes. Yes it is.

Relive the magic in all its early 3D animation glory below, and start committing those moves to memory – we could well be anticipating the anthem of this weird, wild year already.

Source: pedestrian.tv

By Chloe Lal

Seriously, what is life right now?

In a world where musicals have their parade rained on, people get married in the name of good TV and an angry orange man runs one of the biggest nations in the free world… Sometimes it’s comforting to look to a simpler time.

We’re taking it back to one of the greatest years of all time, 2000.

J.K Rowling gifted us with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Britney was singing Oops!… I Did It Again and N’Sync were saying Bye Bye Bye.

But for anyone living south of the equator…

To the lucky chaps that call Australia home, 2000 was all about the Olympics.

Continue reading Drop us out of the sky, we’re back in 2000 with Nikki Webster

Still our Olympics princess: Viral video of Nikki Webster’s Strawberry Kisses duet on Harbour Bridge shows pop starlet and mother has barely aged!

By Hannah Paine For Daily Mail Australia.

She was the golden haired girl of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Olympics.

And while her days as a teen pop star might be over, dance studio owner and mother-of-one Nikki Webster, 29, has made a musical comeback of sorts on Monday’s episode of Sunrise.

A video of Nikki performing her hit Strawberry Kisses alongside Sunrise weather presenter Sam Mac has gone viral, amassing more than 500,000 views in just 24 hours, showing how the Sydney Games’ princess has grown up but barely changed.

Continue reading Still our Olympics princess: Viral video of Nikki Webster’s Strawberry Kisses duet on Harbour Bridge

Christ the Sydney Olympics feel like a lifetime away.

The dawn of the new millennium. The domination by Aussie athletes. The ‘Battler’s Prince’, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat. It was all so goddamn fun.

And while the new millennium has unfortunately turned out to be absolute garbage, we can at least delight in this bizarre reminder of that simpler, far off time of 2000: Nikki Webster, the then-13-year-old star of the opening ceremony, has performed her hit Strawberry Kisses on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Singing live on Sunrise yesterday morning, the now 29-year-old Webster appeared because Karaoke Climb is inexplicably now a thing and weatherman Sam Mac apparently experienced divine intervention/heatstroke:

“My producer told me about Bridge Climb Karaoke and said we had the opportunity to take one special guest up.

“For some unknown reason, presumably divine intervention, I saw a vision of Nikki Webster flying over the bridge with me just behind her dropping a nine-second rap sequence.”

So go ahead. Watch it, and try not to feel even the smallest, foggiest bit of nostalgic joy.

Although fair warning, Kochie is shown dancing towards the end, so maybe actually just watch the start.

Did you see that?! Fuck, maybe there is a little bit of that 2000 magic out there after all.

If you can handle any more of this insanity, check out the original music vid below.

By Chris Woods.

Source: pedestrian.tv