She’s performed in front of millions worldwide but for singer Nikki Webster, the HSC exams are far more terrifying.

The 17-year-old star will sit for her final exam tomorrow before jetting off to the US to check out the latest fashion trends for her clothing range.

“Sitting an exam is the scariest thing ever,” Webster said. “I can get up and I can perform and that doesn’t take anything out of me, but sitting in a corridor waiting to go into an exam is just crazy.”

She has finished her maths and English papers and will sit for drama tomorrow. She completed HSC subjects music and business studies in year 11. Between completing year 12 at the McDonald College in Strathfield, Webster has juggled performances, her clothing range and a “best of” album, to be released next month.

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Olympic singing sensation is ready to take on the world.

Pop princess Nikki Webster turns 17 this month – and she’s ready to take on the world. However, her busy schedule hasn’t left much time for romance and, just like the song on her last album, she’s still Never Been Kissed!

“My friends and I all kiss each other on the cheek but no, not a boyfriend. I haven’t found anyone that I feel comfortable with yet. Hopefully, that will come,” she tells Woolworth’s Fresh.

And so on April 30, when Nikki turns 17, she’ll spend the night having a quiet dinner with her mum Tina and dad Mark in their inner Sydney home – the same way she spent her 16th birthday. On the weekend a few gal pals will come over for “some dancing” but the music will “definitely not” be from one of her albums!

“They would probably love it if we played some of those – I’d be embarrassed,” she adds.

Most Australians would find it hard to imagine Nikki shirking away from the limelight. After all, in the last four years this baby-faced singer has grown up right before our eyes. Energetic Nikki became world-famous as the fearless high-flying 13-year-old performer at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony – appearing before a TV audience of four billion. Continue reading Nikki comes of age

Performing in front of billions of people one day, back at school the next part-time star Nikki Webster blends back in at assembly.

By ABAN CONTRACTOR

At 8.15am yesterday, Nikki Webster walked into school weighed down by a huge backpack but oblivious to the burdens of celebrity.

The tiny star of the Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies was simply happy to be among friends.

Dressed in school uniform, face scrubbed of make-up, the 13-year-old sat through English, school assembly – where she received the principal’s gold award “for a most professional performance” at the XXVII Olympiad – recess and rollcall.

And every now and then someone asked for her autograph.

The McDonald College daily bulletin said Nikki was not required to pick up a bus pass or pay for chocolates already eaten. And she is unlikely to be on detention next Tuesday or Wednesday.

“I was actually looking forward to coming back to school because I hadn’t been here for three weeks during the Olympics and I wanted to come back and see everybody,” she said. “We did a little bit of English. We actually started to do some work, but we started chatting more than doing work.”

While Nikki took a starring role, almost one-third of the Strathfield private school’s 380 primary and secondary students played a part in the Games spectacular. Some sang, some danced, and some swam their way through Deep Sea Dreaming.

“It was great fun to know that people I knew from my school [which specialises in theatre arts] were actually performing with me and having a good time,” Nikki said.

The Year 8 student has cut her first CD, We’ll Be One – “Hopefully, it gets to platinum” – and will have a starring role in a Hollywood film, The Vanilla Gorilla, to be shot in South Africa and directed by Randal Kleiser of Grease fame.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (via NikkiWebster.dk)