Suzanne Shaw (born Suzanne Crowshaw on 29 September 1981) is an English actress, television personality and sometime singer most famous for winning the first series of the talent contest Popstars and so subsequently being a member of the band Hear'Say and is the winner of series 3 Dancing on Ice 2008.
Suzanne Shaw | |
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| Born | 29 September 1981 |
| Occupation(s) | former singer, reality television star, actress |
| Website | Suzanne's official website |
Biography
Suzanne Crowshaw started ballet lessons at the age of two and by the age of three she was attending the Lupino and Freelance Dance school, where she trained in all forms of dance. Suzanne also studied acting, and performed in her first show Annie at just five years of age. She joined an amateur dramatics society and did various productions, including The Sound of Music, and a west end production of Showboat at the age of nine. Suzanne was a member of an ABBA tribute band, The Right Stuff, and appeared in countless television roles including an Esso ad, Holby City, and a BBC production, Elidor. She also tried for the part of Maria Sutherland in Coronation Street along with Girls Aloud member Kimberley Walsh, but lost out to Samia Smith.
Suzanne also developed her musical abilities, learning the recorder and violin, at St Marys primary school and later the saxophone at St Gabriels R.C. High School. After leaving school, Suzanne attended Oldham College for a BTec National Diploma in Performing Arts with extra units in acting essentials and devising and developing performance. A tutor recalls: She pushed back the norms of dance in a production she choreographed with a Nepalese student. "Suzanne was a good team player, enthusiastic and involved in all the activities. She was ambitious and always willing." At this time Suzi joined an ABBA tribute band, touring worldwide, which was the beginning of her professional career.
Popstars / Hear'Say
Her big chance came when in 2001 the ITV show called "Popstars", gave an opportunity for contestants to become part of a newly formed pop band. Suzanne had just turned 18, and attended the auditions and successfully made it through several elimination rounds. She was chosen as one of the ten finalists and became one of the members of "Hear'Say", along with Kym Marsh, Myleene Klass, Noel Sullivan and Danny Foster, having beaten off 4,000 other hopefuls. Their debut single was the fastest selling non-charitable record ever, selling 1.3 million copies.
Their album, Popstars, went on to sell 1.2 million copies in the UK, followed by their own television show entitled Hear'say It's Saturday, performing with established artists such as Lionel Richie, Joe Pasquale, Bradley Walsh, Blue and Atomic Kitten. Subsequently the band achieved a 37 date sell-out arena tour and performed numerous television guest appearances.
She made many appearances with the band in TV and live performance venues, including in 2002 "Hear'Say: A New Chapter in Full", "The Hear'Say Story", "Hear'Say It's Saturday!" and the "Royal Variety Performance" for television in 2001. They had two number one singles, a number three single and a number six single in The British charts, before splitting among a blaze of media headlines.
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | ||
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| U.K. | IRE | NZ | |||
| 2001 | "Pure and Simple" | ||||
| "The Way to Your Love" | |||||
| "Everybody" | |||||
| 2002 | "Lovin' Is Easy" | ||||
Post Hear'Say
Since the band broke up on October 1st 2002, just after her 21st birthday, she has appeared in musical theatre and landed a leading role in the remake of the "Summer Holiday" musical in London's West End, and later in a UK tour of the show.
In February 2005, Suzanne took on the role of narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, in the London's West End. The leading role in Snow White followed, which was hailed as the UKs best Pantomime and then as Janet in The Rocky Horror Show National tour, which made two visits to the west end. She has also appeared in the reality television programmes Have I Been Here Before? and Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver. Her TV appearances have also included The Court for Channel Four and Loose Women on ITV1. In 2007 she competed in a filmed reality series titled The Baron which was to have been broadcast on ITV1 in August 2007, but was postponed (and possibly cancelled) due to the death of fellow contestant Mike Reid between filming and broadcast.
Shaw played a car crash victim on the British television police procedural The Bill, broadcasted on ITV1 in June 2007.[1]
On the 1st of March ITV it was confirmed that she had chipped a bone in her ankle during training and there were doubts as to whether she would be able to continue in the competition. However, with the live show just one day later and this sort of injury usually requiring a cast, Suzanne bravely continued. On the 2nd March Suzanne did skate with her ankle strapped; however she finished 2nd bottom on the leader board with a total of 24 surrendering top spot to Chris Fountain.
On the 9th March Suzanne skated in the semi-final of Dancing on Ice and yet again acheived a high score of 27.5, just 1.5 points behind the highest Chris Fountain therefore losing the highest score of the series to Chris. This sent her through to the final.
On the 16th March 2008, Suzanne Shaw was named the Series 3 Dancing on Ice champion, after getting a perfect score of 60/60 from the judges and winning the public vote. Chris Fountain came a close second.
Personal life
Shaw got engaged to record producer Terry Adams during Hear'say. The relationship ended during Suzanne's UK tour of Summer Holiday when she fell for Darren Day. Corey Mackenzie Day was born in the December of 2004.
A 'sex video' featuring Suzanne was released onto the internet during her time in Hear'Say. She denies it is her but it obviously is.
After having relationships with Big Brother Contestant/Singer Ziggy and actor Andrew-Lee Potts, she now dates former Radio 1 DJ Jason King, of radio duo JK and Joel who have previously presented the official UK chart show on a Sunday afternoon. The couple had been friends since Suzanne's sclub days but began dating in December of 2005 after appearing together on Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver!
References
- ^ "The Bill - Darren Day". Retrieved 2007-05-16.
External links
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- Suzanne's official website
- UnOfficial Suzanne Shaw website