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Name: Sophie Ellis Bextor
Bate of Birth: April 10th, 1979
Birth Location: London, England, UK
Occupation: Singer / Modeling
Height: 5' 10"
Fathers Name: Robin Bextor
Mothers Name: Janet Ellis (Ex-Blue Peter presenter)
1st Acting Appearance: "Never Mind the Buzzcocks"
1st Album: The Audience
Eye Colour: Hazel
Natural Hair Colour: Brown

Trivia:

- At the age of four, she witnessed her parents' messy divorce, and was later forced to adjust to their remarriages and the accompanying arrival of five new half-siblings

- At age 17, Sophie met the musician Billy Reeves in a nightclub called Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception, and gave him one of her demo tapes. Impressed with her voice, Reeves invited Sophie to become the lead singer for an indie band he was starting, called theaudience, and her professional career began.

- The in-band feuding by the members of The Audience had escalated to such an extent that the group's label, Mercury Records, dumped them, and by 1999, the band was dead.

- Sophie spent a few months working as a print model, appearing in such magazines as Cosmopolitan and Company, as well as doing a topless spread in a pulp weekly.

- She tried her hand at writing a novel (an attempt that did not extend beyond a few chapters)

- In 2000, Sophie's publisher sent her a track from Italian DJ Christiano Spiller with an adjoining request that she supply the vocals and lyrics for it. The end result was "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

- In August of 2001, her first single, a remake of Cher's "Take Me Home," was released, debuting at #2 on the Singles Charts.

- The album itself, Read My Lips, found its way into stores later that month, and the second single, "Murder on the Dancefloor," debuted at #2 in December of 2001.

- Sophie's mother is Ex-Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis

- Scored a no. 1 hit with her collaboration with Italian DJ Spiller, Groovejet [If This Ain't Love].

- The video to her first solo single, Take Me Home, was made by Prince Edward's production company, Argent.

- Received the Recording Artiste Award at The Variety Club Showbusiness Awards 2002.

- Was in a band called 'The Audience'

- Auditioned back in 1999 for a placing in the movie Moulin Rouge, but did not get casted.

- Robbie Williams hates her for refusing to serve as his opening act on a 1998 tour.

- Cher hates her for spicing up the lyrics in a remake of her 1979 hit, "Take Me Home."

- Victoria Beckham hates her for overshadowing the release of her solo debut single

- Because of her mother's television status, Sophie was the object of ridicule at her private school, the prestigious Godolphin and Latymer.

- Sophie became the object of countless tabloid rumors, ranging from a supposed pregnancy to purported upcoming roles on Friends and the next James Bond film, most of which have been revealed as false.

- Over the span of a mere two years, Sophie rose from near obscurity to the sex symbol darling of the music press, largely through her onstage presence and ability to adapt to a media-obsessed pop fan base (inviting a number of comparisons to Madonna).

-She currently resides in the Swiss Cottage neighborhood of North London with her DJ boyfriend of five years, Andy Bond.