She is now a darling of the West End stage, following her impressive stage debut, in The Rise And Fall of Little Voice in 2008 - still one of her favourites to date.
But it was in 2008, when Diana Vickers was just 16 and still had a penchant for big beehive hairdos, that she appeared on The X Factor, and quite swiftly became a household name.
The 33 year old from Blackburn, who has opened up exclusively to OK! about her hilarious new lead role in I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical – a show complete with musical numbers like I’m Gwynnocent, money guns and a giant vagina candle – also reflected on her life-changing time on the show which shot her to fame.
Diana admits that she’s happy, over 15 years later, that after what’s been a difficult journey at times, that she has been accepted into the theatre community and isn’t just “that girl off The X Factor”.
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