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'Can't erase it' Perri Kiely on still being seen as 'the little kid from Diversity'

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Britain's Got Talent star has grown up a great deal since his win and subsequent performance at the Royal Variety Show in front of the Queen.Anyone who might be expecting the cute child they saw on stage years ago, he warned, could be in for a dramatic shock.The 26-year-old told Express.co.uk that it has been difficult to change people's perceptions of him since reaching adulthood."I think that's always gonna be the first thing that people say, isn't it?" he reasoned."I get it to this day, 'Oh my God, you're the little kid from Diversity'!"However, he added that anyone writing him off as the child star of 2009 will "get a little bit of a shock" when they see him."[When] I turn up or someone sees me in person...[they'll] be like 'Oh!

That is not what I ordered.That is not what I had in mind!'" joked Perri."I'm quite a bit taller since then. A lot of time's passed."He added that he wasn't "trying to run away from" his background, acknowledging: "That's a huge part of my life...

so I can't erase it, wouldn't erase it!"He believes that his experiences of becoming a celebrity early on in life have forced him to grow up quicker than average, even though the nation might still see the grinning, dance sensation that he was as a child."I defo think I've had to tackle certain things sooner than someone my age, which I guess has kind of forced me to mature [quicker]," he mused."I'm not a very mature person [generally] but especially when I was younger, all my friends were going to parties and enjoying that element of growing up [and] I kinda missed out on all of that."I went [straight] into a full blown job."However, he conceded: "At the same time it never felt like a job.

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