{"id":47,"date":"2001-01-08T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2001-01-08T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-10-28T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T08:21:20","slug":"25-most-intriguing-people-2000-nikki-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/25-most-intriguing-people-2000-nikki-webster\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Most Intriguing People, 2000 &#8211; Nikki Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fearless talent,\u201d says theatrical producer John Frost of Nikki Webster, the Sydney schoolgirl who rose above enormous sea creatures and floated into fame at the Olympic opening ceremony. \u201cThis kid just walks in and takes over and just commands the stage.\u201d And she\u2019s about to take charge of a lot more. When WHO caught up with Nikki just after her mesmerising and angelic performance as Dream Girl, the then 12-year-old spoke of her big chance. \u201cI hope it makes me well-known,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause my dream is to make a CD and to be in a movie. And if I am well-known, people will buy the CDs and watch the movies \u2013 that would be my dream.\u201d She must sleep with fairy dust under her pillow: earlier this month Nikki signed with Gotham\/BMG Records and will soon take centre-stage in the recording studio. But first up is a trip to South Africa in February to star in the Hollywood film <i>Vanilla Gorilla<\/i>. Says Frost, who discovered Nikki when he cast her in his \u201999 production of <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>: \u201cI see a major career for Nikki.\u201d That might be the understatement of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Who Magazine<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkiwebsterfan.net\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=243\">View scan of this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fearless talent,\u201d says theatrical producer John Frost of Nikki Webster, the Sydney schoolgirl who rose above enormous sea creatures and floated into fame at the Olympic opening ceremony. \u201cThis kid just walks in and takes over and just commands the stage.\u201d And she\u2019s about to take charge of a lot more. When WHO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/25-most-intriguing-people-2000-nikki-webster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 Most Intriguing People, 2000 &#8211; Nikki Webster<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}