Lizzo was growing up in the ’90s, she never saw anyone who looked like her on TV. “The choice of Black girls they used in media was the same kind of Black girl,” the Grammy-winning singer says, alluding to the rail-thin figures of celebrities. As a teenager, Lizzo remembers the tabloids body-shaming Jessica Simpson.
Where are Pop Idol's series one stars now – from school jobs to West End stage
06.02.2022 - 12:51 / ok.co.uk
It's been over twenty years since Will Young defied the odds and was crowned winner of Pop Idol in 2001. Over ten gruelling weeks of live shows, Will impressed both the public and the show judges Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman, Nicki Chapman and Neil Fox. The singer was voted the champion by the public, managing to pip the series favourite Gareth Gates to the post with 53% of the vote, scoring him a coveted recording contract.
While Will Young and Gareth Gates both went on to enjoy successful pop careers, whatever happened to the other young hopefuls from the first series? Let's take a look... Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. You can sign up at the top of the page.
Rik Waller Pop Idol made a star of Kent-born singer Rik Waller, who was tipped to win the first series of the singing reality show. Following the show, he landed a £400k recording contract and released two singles. However, he was later dropped by the label and was last seen on television in 2007.
He was last seen working as an exam invigilator. Darius Danesh Darius placed third on the second series of Pop Idol after originally auditioning for Popstars the year previous. He went on to release five top ten singles, toured with Shakira and won ITV show Popstar to Operastar in 2010.
Since then, he has enjoyed a successful musical theatre career and music production. He shares two sons with his ex-wife actress Natasha Henstridge. In 2017, he contracted an inflammatory virus from drinking dirty water while filming a charity television advert.The singer was filming next to the River Thames when he took a slug of the infected water which left his immune system so low that he caught bacterial
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