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<\/a>When I flew last night, I wasn\u2019t scared \u2013 just thrilled to be a part of the opening ceremony seen by billions of people around the world.<\/b><\/p>\nI couldn\u2019t see anyone in the crowd while I was swimming, and just concentrated on pretending I was at the beach and in the ocean to make people believe the story. The Deep Sea section of the ceremony was my favourite because I love going to the beach. It was amazing to be up there, 25m off the ground, and so much fun. Even in my first audition I wasn\u2019t scared when they lifted us up to test our nerves, then took us up a bit higher into the stadium.<\/p>\n
When I won the part I was so excited, and since then the training has not taken that long. I had to spend the most time learning the flying sequence, and that is a great new skill to have.<\/p>\n
It was a great honour to be part of the ceremony and perform in the stadium, and also to meet some of my idols like John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John. I look up to Olivia because I love her voice and she\u2019s gone so far with her career, which I hope will happen to me too.<\/p>\n
I hope my performance last night helps me with further opportunities and pushes along my dream of being a pop star and an actor. Olivia has given me some encouraging words which I will always remember, saying I have an amazing voice. I just love her, she has been my idol since I first saw Grease<\/i> when I was about five years old. That was when I first started performing and I have been dancing, singing, and acting ever since.<\/p>\n
I sang at the Royal Easter Show, and I\u2019ve been in the Sound of Music<\/i>, but last night\u2019s performance was the most thrilling.<\/p>\n
But even though I know my life will change today because of the publicity, it won\u2019t change me.<\/p>\n
Source: The Herald Sun By Nikki Webster When I flew last night, I wasn\u2019t scared \u2013 just thrilled to be a part of the opening ceremony seen by billions of people around the world. I couldn\u2019t see anyone in the crowd while I was swimming, and just concentrated on pretending I was at the beach and in the ocean … Continue reading<\/a>Young star shines brightly<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,70],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-olympics","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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