On Track: Star of this year's MK Theatre pantomime Stacey Solomon answers Total MKs questions...


She's the X-Factor finalist with the bubbly personality and a smile to match.
It's a winning combination that has seen her chart bothering career swelled by a great career on the small screen - as a presenter and panellist. And she's officially a Loose Woman!

Only a couple of days ago Stacey Solomon was Down Under, covering the happenings in this year's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, but yesterday she made her pantomime debut in Dick Whittington, starring as Fairy Bowbell.
She's a grafter is our Stacey!
She went On Track with Total MK and shared her musical likes and loves - and keeping with the festive, she told us how she will spend Christmas this year…

 

The song that first awakened your musical senses
Over the rainbow- Eva Cassidy

Physical or digital - how do you take your music?
Digital, I don't have a CD player!

The first time you thought 'Music - this is the job for me'
When i saw spice girls Live at Wembley! All I wanted to do was perform after that!

Your best on stage memory...
Singing with Michael Buble what a legend.

And the worst gig you've ever done
In a nightclub in Magaluf - I don't think it's what the clubbers were out to see haha

What made you take up as a singer
I just love singing, and always wanted to perform sing, act anything!

Which one song by another artist do you wish you'd have written
Ed Sheehan - thinking out loud

And one - by yourself - which holds special significance
Dream in Blue - reminds me of how my mum used to sing to me when she took me to bed.

If you could step into the shoes of another musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you do?
Barbara Streisand. I would love to live a day in her life, feeling confident empowered and spreading that Over to millions of people who aspire to me.

Are there any current musical influences that you might look to
Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran.

And any genre of music that you simply can't stand?
Techno

And - with panto and Christmas in mind - tell us...
The present you hope will be under your Christmas tree on December 25th
All of my family. I'm one of 7 so I just wish for us all to be together at Christmas I know it's hard to get everyone in the same room for 5 minutes so that's the dream!

How you'll spend Christmas Day
At Joe's this year with his mum and sisters.

The essential Christmas programmes that you'll definitely be watching...
Home Alone, Gavin and Stacey xmas special and Birds of a feather Xmas special!

Your favourite Christmas carol - and why
Silent night. My grandad used to sing it with the choir every year and bring me up to get involved!

Christmas pudding: A must-do, or a must avoid?!

Hate any kind of cake with fruit in! Why bother just go fully unhealthy! Haha cake is cake!

And if people have yet to snap up a ticket for Dick Whittington, tell them why they should!
It's going to be amazing! The theatre is phenomenal, the cast is so lovely and talented...

To book tickets for Dick Whittington click here