Nikki Webster Press Archive

Almost 20 years on, Nikki Webster has opened up about the behind the scenes dramas from the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony.

By Luke Dennehy

The Aussie sweetheart shows off her ‘precious little man’ for the very first time.

By Leigh Credlin

She soared high above the crowd at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony and found pop princess stardom with the release of her noughties hit Strawberry Kisses, but Nikki Webster’s favourite role by far is being mummy to her two adorable munchkins Skylah and Malachi.

“I think I’m the luckiest mum… but I know every mum does,” she tells Woman’s Day as we sit down for a catch-up at her gorgeous home in Lidcombe in Sydney’s west.

“It’s the best job. The fact they grew inside of me, that I carried them around for nine months, is still crazy to me. I love watching them grow and develop, and being on their journey with them.

“And of course, getting all the kisses and cuddles and having mum time, when no-one is around. When it’s just us snuggling on the couch together, reflecting on our day.”

Nikki shocked the nation in November last year when she revealed she and husband Matthew McCah had quietly welcomed their son Malachi a few weeks earlier. But the 31-year-old dance teacher insists it wasn’t a conscious decision to keep her second pregnancy under wraps.

“I was just so busy!” Nikki reveals as she proudly shows off her 13-month-old for the first time to Woman’s Day.

“Then I realised I was pregnant [laughs] and we had him. It wasn’t anything strategic. We also wanted to give the kids time to bond together – and it was about me finding time to bond with them as well.”

While Matthew was sadly unable to make our photoshoot due to work commitments, Nikki tells us they decided Christmas was the perfect time to introduce their “precious little man” to the world.

“It’s is a big thing in our family,” she says. “It’s about giving and being together as a family.” Continue reading Meet Nikki Webster’s baby boy

Amy Lyall

Nikki Webster shot to fame after her performances at the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2000 Olympics, but a lot has changed since then.

She’s now a mum-of-two and chatted to Kidspot about her son Malachi’s birth last year, which came as a shock to everyone.

“It wasn’t like I was holding it as a surprise, I think it just kind of happened,” she explained.

“Everyone was so busy and I was so busy with work but it’s going good, my little man is 14 weeks and he’s going amazing,” she gushed.
Continue reading Nikki Webster reveals why no one knew about her second pregnancy

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