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We gave pop newcomer Belle her first bizarre Pops grilling. She was a bit nervous...

TOTP: You're walking down the street and you find Louis Walsh's wallet on the pavement, containing 1000 quid and some potentially incriminating photographs of Ronan Keating. What would you do?
Belle: Steal his money, probably, first of all. I wouldn't give it back to him. I'd sell it on ebay!
Sold! TOTP: That's an excellent start.
Belle: I hope that's okay?
TOTP: That's fine, yes.
Belle: I'm not a fan.

TOTP: You're on the bill at a gig with several other up-and-coming acts. The MC is giving a lot of attention to one of the other acts who seems to be flirting with him a lot. When it's your turn to go out, would you flirt as well to try to get equal amounts of publicity?
Belle: Hmmm. I'm not too sure, actually. So you're saying I'm at a gig and the MC is favouring one of the other acts?
TOTP: Yes, and someone else is getting bigged up because she's flirting, and you want equal attention.
Belle: I'd love to say that I'd find out a really rude fact about the other person and say it in front of everybody, but I don't know how I'd go about that, so I'm not sure whether I would. I don't know what I'd do, actually.

TOTP: You arrive late to a show and you get rushed onstage by a harassed-looking PA who's not paying any attention to who you are and you get introduced onstage as Natasha Bedingfield. What do you do?
Natasha Bedingfield. NOT Belle, y'hear? Belle: Start singing her songs, I guess. Or...no, I can't do that. [Laughs.] I don't know! You're really surprising me with your questions.
TOTP: Sorry...
Belle: No, it's good! Because all the other interviews I've had are just like "nuh nuh nuh", the usual "tell us about your single", so I wasn't prepared for your amazing questions! I'll have to come back to it.

TOTP: Someone in your PR company decides it would be a brilliant idea to concoct a romance between you and somebody like James Morrison to get you lots of attention in the tabloids. Do you go along with it?
Belle: No. No, I don't think I would. No. You mean, like in The Sun and all the stuff like that? No way.
TOTP: It'd be so they could say "they were photographed together leaving a trendy celeb nightspot..."
Belle: No way. It's b******s!
James Morrison - officially NOT Belle's new squeeze. You heard it here first!

TOTP: You're backstage at a concert and again it's you and a number of other acts. All of your performance clothes have gone missing, but you notice everyone else's dressing rooms are unlocked. Would you steal someone else's clothes to go on stage?
Belle: Hmm. It depends what I was wearing on the night, I think. If I was wearing something completely lame that I hated, or if I went into everybody's dressing room and picked an item that I liked and then I'd put them all together...
TOTP: Ah! So you haven't stolen their style, you've just made your own style out of other people's stuff.
Belle: Exactly! Mix and match.

TOTP: A high-up TV person offers to fast-track you into the finals of X-Factor despite the fact that you didn't audition, because they think you could win... Hey, it could happen! Would you go along with it?
Belle: [instantly] No. Not in ANY circumstances!
It's safe to assume Belle probably didn't vote for Shayne Ward TOTP: Are you not a fan of TV shows like that?
Belle: I think popstars don't get an opportunity to shine on things like that. I don't think it's right.

TOTP: A nuclear power company wants to sponsor your tour. Do you let them?
Belle: [laughing, in disbelief] A nuclear power company?
TOTP: Yeah, like "Belle, in conjunction with Explodomatic Reactors!" They're offering you a lot of money...
Belle: [suddenly] Yeah! Hell yeah. Yeah, I'd do it. Definitely. If they promoted my single well enough, yeah.

TOTP: You're out with your your boyfriend who is severely diabetic and who is having a serious attack, on the verge of going into a coma if he doesn't get some sugar soon. The only sugary substance you can see anywhere is on a lolly belonging to a two-year-old accompanied by her fierce-looking mother. Do you steal the child's lolly?
Belle: [laughs] That's a brilliant question! I'd have to steal it, I'd have to fight off her mum and deal with it. [Giggles.] I'm trying to think what I'd actually do in that situation. You're making me think of the weirdest situations!
TOTP: We have a habit of doing that to people. So would you try to charm the mother?
Belle: Yeah. Perhaps kind of sign her some albums, do a little dance...
Belle searches for that elusive lolly on the beach TOTP: While your boyfriend's passing out...
Belle: Yeah, exactly. I don't know! Or, y'know, just go up to the girl, grab the lolly and stick it in his mouth.

TOTP: You're offered the headline slot at Live 8 Three, but it clashes with your mum's birthday and she's made it clear that she really, really wants you all at home for a family dinner. Mum? Or Live 8?
Belle: I would make sure that they could all be on Live 8, because I would NEVER miss out on a chance to play at Live 8, not in a million years. So I'd arrange for them all to go.
TOTP: And perhaps you could all go out for dinner afterwards.
Belle: Exactly! Easily fixable.


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Interview by: Steve P and Femi A
28/07/2006

 
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