Jade Thirlwall, the former Little Mix star, revealed a funny childhood memory to her fans during her BBC Proms performance.
Jade Thirlwall shared a hilarious confession during her impressive BBC Proms performance in her native North East. The Little Mix star, 32, treated her hometown to an excellent show alongside the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Gateshead’s The Glasshouse.
The South Shields-born actress took time to explain her life growing up in the area between her flawless tunes. And Jade also shared a “fun fact” before introducing her massive hit, Fantasy.
She told her adoring crowd: “My mam was always playing Motown music, specifically Diana Ross. Fun fact, I genuinely thought my mam was Diana Ross for a hot minute. To the point where she would go off to the bingo and she would be like ‘I’m going to do a show’ and I’d be like ‘gag, that’s my mam’.
Do you ever remember the moment you attend school and participate in a show-and-tell activity? I can recall watching a Diana Ross show with the kids playing Pokemon cards or some other toys.
And they would ask, “What’s that?” and I would say, “That’s my mam.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t my mother, but I believe my mother is just as special, if not more.
She then impressively sang “in my on Jadefied way,” which was a tune she had a love for Motown. She explained that the song was a way to “be unapologetically yourself” while playing her own song, Fantasy.
Jade also treated those at the event that was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to a number of other big numbers from her own repertoire. And she also showcased her huge talent with a number of cover songs, including Madonna’s Frozen.
Perhaps Sam Fender’s Remember My Name served as the night’s cover. Jade produced a flawless and heartfelt rendition of the song in honor of the “King of the North.”
Before Jade welled up after the conclusion of the song, the audience was in tears. She explained the sentimental significance of her choice and revealed that the song had been played at a friend’s friend’s recent funeral with her broken voice.
The crowd overwhelmingly praised the open confession, some of whom yelled “Gush over their “Angel of the North.”
The performance by Jade was a history-making success, and it was also recorded for television at a later time as well as the broadcast on Radio 3 that night. The Proms were the first to be broadcast on television outside of London.
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