{"id":1180,"date":"2009-06-20T05:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T05:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2014-10-29T06:54:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:54:43","slug":"now-then-nikki-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/now-then-nikki-webster\/","title":{"rendered":"Now &#038; Then &#8211; Nikki Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The little girl from the Sydney Olympics is all grown up now &#8211; like it or not!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;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 &#8211; I actually hit a jellyfish on the night. I wasn&#8217;t thinking about all the people watching on TV. Maybe it was a good thing, because I might have freaked out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dancing with the Stars<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;This is when I got eliminated [in 2005, after receiving a score of one from judge Todd McKenney]. I didn&#8217;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&#8217;s all in the past. I guess you get caught up in what goes on in the show. They&#8217;re such sexual, sensual dances&#8230; and you&#8217;re spending seven days a week with this person, eight hours a day. It&#8217;s inevitable, really. It&#8217;s definitely something that, if I was married, I wouldn&#8217;t want my husband doing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Devilicious<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;My single &#8216;Devilicious&#8217; is a really fun track &#8211; 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, &#8216;You look great!&#8217; I was like, &#8216;But it&#8217;s bloody uncomfortable!&#8217; I love my shoes in it. I got them in LA after I recorded &#8216;Devilicious&#8217;. With the song coming out and the new shots, people on the street stop me and say, &#8216;Aren&#8217;t you still 12?&#8217; It&#8217;s funny. People are always going to have that image, and I don&#8217;t want them to forget that &#8211; I just want them to accept who I am now as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nikki&#8217;s single &#8216;Devilicious&#8217; is out now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: TV Week<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=299\" target=\"_blank\">View scan of this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl from the Sydney Olympics is all grown up now &#8211; like it or not! Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony &#8220;I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/now-then-nikki-webster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now &#038; Then &#8211; Nikki Webster<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-devilicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}