Diana Vickers couldn’t be happier when OK! catches up with her for an exclusive chat.The 33-year-old Blackburn actress, famed back in the day for her stint on Simon Cowell’s X Factor in 2008, is now a well-respected West End force, exuding positivity and fun as she tells us about her new stage role.
Diana has taken on a variety of big parts since her acting debut in The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice in 2009, but her latest comes as something of a surprise.
Starring as Gwyneth Paltrow in I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical – a show complete with bombastic musical numbers like I’m Gwynnocent, money guns and a giant vagina candle – the fast-paced parody sounds like a riot.
The bubbly actress plays the Hollywood star in the musical adaptation of the 2023 celebrity trial, Gwyneth Paltrow vs Terry Sanderson, that resulted from a ski slope collision.The high-profile trial saw retired optometrist Sanderson sue Paltrow for $300,000 – and Gwyneth countersued for $1.The Utah court ruled in her favour and the trial wrapped with the now iconic four words from the A-lister: “I wish you well.” Diana admits: “I was initially, like, how the hell do you make a musical out of this?
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