The X-Factor: Celebrity at the end of 2019 and landing a deal with Simon Cowell’s record label, Megan McKenna was on the brink of taking her singing career to the next level.
But then the pandemic hit. ‘This is what I wanted to put across in the book . . . You can eat pastries, you can eat cake’ Was the reality TV star – who found fame on shows like Ex On The Beach, Celebrity Big Brother and The Only Way Is Essex – gutted she had to put her music plans on hold?“Everything happens in a weird way,” she says on a Zoom call from her home in Essex. “I’ve had time to do my writing and get all my material ready.
It has held things back, but that’s fine – it held the whole world back, not just me. ”In fact, McKenna, who went to a performing arts school and released her debut album Story Of Me in 2018, relished the chance to slow down for once. “I’ve been crazy for however many years I’ve been doing TV – seven or eight years.
So to actually have time to do me… I was at home, I’m so lucky to have a lovely house with a garden. ”Passionate about cooking, the 29-year-old got busy in the kitchen instead.
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