{"id":887,"date":"2000-10-05T02:48:33","date_gmt":"2000-10-05T02:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-05-01T01:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:45:39","slug":"nikki-wakes-up-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikki-wakes-up-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Wakes Up To School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Performing in front of billions of people one day, back at school the next part-time star Nikki Webster blends back in at assembly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By ABAN CONTRACTOR<\/p>\n

At 8.15am yesterday, Nikki Webster walked into school weighed down by a huge backpack but oblivious to the burdens of celebrity.<\/p>\n

The tiny star of the Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies was simply happy to be among friends.<\/p>\n

Dressed in school uniform, face scrubbed of make-up, the 13-year-old sat through English, school assembly – where she received the principal’s gold award “for a most professional performance” at the XXVII Olympiad \u2013 recess and rollcall.<\/p>\n

And every now and then someone asked for her autograph.<\/p>\n

The McDonald College daily bulletin said Nikki was not required to pick up a bus pass or pay for chocolates already eaten. And she is unlikely to be on detention next Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I was actually looking forward to coming back to school because I hadn’t been here for three weeks during the Olympics and I wanted to come back and see everybody,” she said. “We did a little bit of English. We actually started to do some work, but we started chatting more than doing work.”<\/p>\n

While Nikki took a starring role, almost one-third of the Strathfield private school’s 380 primary and secondary students played a part in the Games spectacular. Some sang, some danced, and some swam their way through Deep Sea Dreaming.<\/p>\n

“It was great fun to know that people I knew from my school [which specialises in theatre arts] were actually performing with me and having a good time,” Nikki said.<\/p>\n

The Year 8 student has cut her first CD, We’ll Be One<\/em> – “Hopefully, it gets to platinum” – and will have a starring role in a Hollywood film, The Vanilla Gorilla<\/em>, to be shot in South Africa and directed by Randal Kleiser of Grease<\/em> fame.<\/p>\n

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (via NikkiWebster.dk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Performing in front of billions of people one day, back at school the next part-time star Nikki Webster blends back in at assembly. By ABAN CONTRACTOR At 8.15am yesterday, Nikki Webster walked into school weighed down by a huge backpack but oblivious to the burdens of celebrity. The tiny star of the Olympic Games opening … Continue reading<\/a>Nikki Wakes Up To School<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}