Leona Lewis the X Factor star with more staying power
March 22nd, 2008, 10:00 pm Hobbies Ideas
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Just like the sticker on her CD says, the wait is over. Forty minutes behind
schedule, Leona Lewis ambles into the fifth floor room of a private members’
club in East London and asks the waitress for a glass of children’s apple
juice. She sings like a diva and - bereft of context - these details alone
might tell you that The X Factor’s most successful gift to the pop world is
beginning to act like one.
But the difference in juices is substantive. As the waitress explains, the
adult juice is cloudy and greenish; the kids’ version pink and sweeter. And
if she’s late, well… given that she was in Berlin five hours ago, and
Italy the day before that, she’s done well to get here at all. Last night
she appeared on the German equivalent of the long-expired Matthew Kelly
gameshow You Bet! One of the contestants was this guy running backwards and
jumping over hurdles, she says. I think it would have been funny if they
had got me to jump over hurdles with my heels on. Lewis peers up at where
the thought bubble depicting such a thing might be and giggles. Within five
minutes of meeting her it’s already apparent that a newly sculpted snowman
would feel a little grubby next to her.
And with good reason. Had she wanted to, Leona could have had a lie-in, but
it’s Mother’s Day and she elected to wake at 3am because she promised her
mum that they would do lunch together in town. You would have thought that
West End shopping trips might have become problematic by now. But Lewis says
that sometimes entire days go by without her being recognised. People can
be like, %26lsquo;Oh, can I get a little photo?’ or %26lsquo;Well done’ - and there’ll be
some people who shout your name from across the street. Well, it’s not that
Leona doesn’t like the latter - more that she doesn’t quite know how to deal
with them. You’re like, %26lsquo;OK, um… hi!’
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