Ringo Starr asked for my autograph!"
Woman's Weekly|November 07, 2023
I've sometimes thought, 'I wish I'd been born slightly earlier
KATHERINE HASSELL
Ringo Starr asked for my autograph!"

Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Mel Tormé... they're wonderful singers from a bygone era and I love singing their music. If I could get in a time machine to go back to that period, I'd love it.

As a kid, in the lead-up to Sunday lunch, I'd go to the pub with my dad and grandad for a packet of crisps and a bottle of pop. We'd come back and Mum would be preparing food and playing those artists. I'd sing along. I sang along to everyone.

I was 14 when I plucked up courage to sing at a Pontins holiday camp talent competition and realised that's what I wanted to do. People asked for my autograph. I thought, 'Wow! This is cool.' I wasn't clever enough to be an orthopaedic surgeon.

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