The little girl from the Sydney Olympics is all grown up now – like it or not!

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
“I’d been performing in musical theatre since I was five. It was a dream for me to be an entertainer, but I never thought it would come true at the age of 13! I went through five or six months of auditions and got the role of Hero Girl just 15 days before the event. Flying through the air was great fun. I was mainly trying to dodge the flying fish and jellyfish – I actually hit a jellyfish on the night. I wasn’t thinking about all the people watching on TV. Maybe it was a good thing, because I might have freaked out!”

Dancing with the Stars
“This is when I got eliminated [in 2005, after receiving a score of one from judge Todd McKenney]. I didn’t talk to Todd afterwards. Ian Roberts went up and gave him a stern word, and Todd ran away! Sasha (Farber) and I went out for a while, but that’s all in the past. I guess you get caught up in what goes on in the show. They’re such sexual, sensual dances… and you’re spending seven days a week with this person, eight hours a day. It’s inevitable, really. It’s definitely something that, if I was married, I wouldn’t want my husband doing!”

Devilicious
“My single ‘Devilicious’ is a really fun track – so for the promo shots, we wanted to do something a little bit fun, a little bit on the edge. Everyone around me was going, ‘You look great!’ I was like, ‘But it’s bloody uncomfortable!’ I love my shoes in it. I got them in LA after I recorded ‘Devilicious’. With the song coming out and the new shots, people on the street stop me and say, ‘Aren’t you still 12?’ It’s funny. People are always going to have that image, and I don’t want them to forget that – I just want them to accept who I am now as well.

Nikki’s single ‘Devilicious’ is out now.

Source: TV Week
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