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Coming up, three celebs become 12 again.

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I hated my glasses and yet,

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if I took them off, I couldn't see a thing.

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-Do your impression, Sam.

-No, that's what used to happen!

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I think I cried for about 24 hours.

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And we caught up with One Direction.

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My older sisters always used to try and influence my fashion

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which may have involved high heels.

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Ohhh!

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Want to know what they're all talking about?

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Ever wondered what it would have been like

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to be best mates with your favourite celebs

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when they were your age?

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What did they get up to? What were their favourite songs?

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And watch TV shows did they watch?

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Because, despite the glamorous lifestyles they now lead,

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once they were a kid with a dream, just like you.

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This show lets you look back in time

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with your favourite celebs as they become 12 again.

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# Yeah, the bad boys are always catching my eye... #

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She's the number one pop singer who really does have the X Factor.

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But in the year 2000,

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Alexandra Burke had just begun to set her sights firmly on success.

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When I was 12 years old, I knew what I wanted in life already.

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I loved going to school.

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I would be so angry at friends who'd bunk school

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cos I'd be like, "Education is the key!".

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I sounded like an old woman.

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They are the presenting duo who totally like

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to wind you up on a Friday.

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# Daisy dukes, bikinis on top... #

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But back in the 1990s, Sam and Mark were total strangers.

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Go on, you start.

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-I was quite confident for a 12-year-old.

-Yeah, I'd say.

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-You didn't know me.

-Yeah, I'm just trying to be nice.

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-Can you hear that? That is your weekend starting about now!

-Yeah!

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-I think I was a little bit arrogant.

-Oh, yeah?

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I thought I knew a lot more than I actually did.

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At that age, you think you know everything

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and everybody else who's older than you knows nothing.

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And she is the children's author who created

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one of the best-loved characters ever.

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But in 1957, Dame Jacqueline Wilson had her head in the clouds,

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just as much as she did in the books.

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I was frequently called Jacqui Daydream when I was at school

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because I WAS a daydreamer.

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I was the sort of child that stared gormlessly out of the window

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and I'd be making up stories in my head,

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instead of listening to the teachers.

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All are massive celebs today and, for the first time ever,

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we're going to find out everything there is to know about

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what they were like when they were 12.

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So let's go back in time and meet their 12-year-old selves.

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I didn't really like the way I looked when I was 12.

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I was...

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..chubby.

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When I was 12 years old, I was never interested in boys. I hated boys.

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But I loved being a tomboy.

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Years 7, 8 and 9, I wouldn't say I was bad but lovable rogue,

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I'm just going to put that out there for you.

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Spots! Oh, man, I had spots!

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I remember really wanting my voice to break

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because I wanted to have a lower voice, a more manly voice,

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but I always thought you'd notice it straight away.

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Like, (SQUEAKY VOICE) one day you'd be speaking like this,

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and (DEEP VOICE) then you'd go like that.

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But it didn't. It just gradually happened.

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I hated my hair. My mum made me have it very short, with a perm.

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And I also had to wear glasses. I hated my glasses.

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And yet if I took them off, I couldn't see a thing.

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Looks aside, what else did our celebrities get up to?

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You know what I used to do?

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-I was so nervous about my first proper kiss...

-Oh, don't say it!

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..that I used to kiss my TV remote.

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Er, OK, Sam.

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I had a TV in my bedroom and I used to kiss the TV remote

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to practice the, the action of...

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Which side, though?

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Not the one with the buttons. No, the bit on the bottom.

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-Hey, it worked a dream, though!

-It's weird, though.

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She couldn't believe that she was my first kiss.

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-And I went, "Yeah. Yeah, you're my first kiss."

-It's weird, though.

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OK, Sam, each to their own.

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What about Alexandra?

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When I grew up, I used to think my sister and I were twins

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because my mum used to dress us the same,

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until, one day, we both wore the same thing and she turned to me and

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she went, "You know I'm a lot older than you and I'm not your twin."

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I think I cried for about 24 hours.

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When I was 12, I used to play every sport that there is.

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-Football, cricket...

-Polo.

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No, not polo.

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If it has a competitive side to it, you know how competitive

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I am now, but at 12, you're even more competitive.

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I was always performing and I was always the kid that,

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not the first person to get up at a party and do impressions

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and things like that cos that's just annoying.

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-What parties?

-Loads of parties.

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-"Do your impressions, Sam."

-No, but that's what used to happen.

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See, I used to do impressions in the privacy of my own home and

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then your mum would embarrass you by saying, "Oh, do your impression."

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Impressions of who?

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I used to do an impression of a presenter called Cilla Black.

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You're all watching Live and Kicking with a lorra, lorra laughs.

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She always used to go, "Ohhh!"

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"Oh, we're going to have a lorra, lorra laughs" she used to say.

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Dun-dun, der-der-der, dun! Thank you.

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The worst item of clothing, without a question, was my crocodile shoes.

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And to make it even worse, I used to have really high trousers.

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Not cool.

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-There was a singer that had a song called Crocodile Shoes.

-Yeah.

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-So people called you that?

-Yeah, I heard that a lot.

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We lived in a flat that was considered, actually, very luxurious

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because we had central heating and constant running hot water.

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So we quite fancied ourselves in our posh flat.

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Believe it or not, when Jacqueline was a kid,

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having a radiator and being able to get hot water

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when you turned on a tap was considered a luxury!

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In fact, even by the 1970s,

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only 30 percent of homes were properly heated.

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But, while it may have been luxurious,

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life at home wasn't always comfortable for Jacqueline.

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Mum and Dad didn't get on very well, so there were lots of arguments.

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My dad had a fierce temper and would yell a lot.

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I really entered into my own imaginary world then

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because I think when you're 12,

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mostly you're around your family or you're all day at school.

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You don't have time just to daydream. And that's what I liked to do most.

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I shared a bedroom with my sister and my mum used to get so angry

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cos we'd put loads of stickers on it, right.

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We'd stick them up on the wall, ruin the paint, the whole shebang.

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And every time I sang in my room, my audience was the posters,

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because we had it, like, literally, you wouldn't see the wall in there.

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It was literally stickers of people we loved everywhere.

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My mum constantly had to keep painting the walls.

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Every time she painted it, we'd stick more on.

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We were naughty in that respect.

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So that's what Sam and Mark, Jacqueline and Alexandra

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were like when they were 12.

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But what music were they listening to?

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When I was 12, the band that I liked was Oasis.

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# I'll never make my baby cry... #

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-They were massive.

-Pretty big in the '90s.

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When I was 12, they released their third album, Be Here Now,

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which has recently become my favourite Oasis album.

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Oasis exploded into the charts in 1994

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and quickly became the biggest band in the UK.

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By the time Sam was 12, Oasis were at the height of their fame.

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They were so famous that, even though they

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looked kind of funny, everyone still wanted to look like them.

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I even grew my hair once like Liam Gallagher, really long

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and over my ears and it was just like it.

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That was the thing back then.

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The Oasis haircut swept through the nation

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and everybody wanted their own mop-top in the '90s.

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So, while Sam was listening to the most popular music of the time,

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Mark, well, I'll let him tell you.

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In '93... Oh, wow, I can't believe this is going out on air,

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but Meat Loaf came back with Bat Out Of Hell II.

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-Wow!

-And you know when... Oh, what's that song?

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It's this song and I am so sorry.

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# And I would do anything for love... #

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-# If I would do anything... #

-Yeah, that was good.

-That one!

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-I loved that tune!

-That was big.

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And I thought I was so cool buying that. Obviously I wasn't.

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# Oh, I would do anything for love... #

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Don't worry, you heard Mark right.

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He said he liked Meat Loaf when he was 12.

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Not that kind of meatloaf! Although it does look pretty tasty.

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This Meat Loaf is actually called Marvin Lee Aday,

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and he is one of America's biggest rock 'n' roll legends.

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This song, believe it or not, was number one for seven weeks.

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If you'd been at school with Mark,

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this song would have definitely been played at the disco.

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The Meatloaf video, it's kind of like

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-a beauty and the beast fantasy story.

-Yeah.

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-It's not great. It is not a great video.

-No.

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But I remember it being number one

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for about 100 weeks or summat silly like that.

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Yeah, it was a long time at number one.

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Now, the song title, he says,

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"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that."

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We've never found out, to this day, what he won't do.

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# No, I won't do that. #

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Let's leave Sam and Mark

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contemplating what Meat Loaf wouldn't do.

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When Jacqueline was 12,

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all she wanted to do was actually buy some pop music.

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I knew how important it was to be up to the minute with popular music.

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But it was quite difficult for me.

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We didn't have a record player, so I was a bit stuck.

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At 12, I would go round the town with a couple of friends

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and we'd go into a music store

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and listen to those little single records.

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But I could never buy one cos I had nothing to play it on.

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I pretended that I liked various popstars

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just because all the other girls did.

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There was Cliff, Cliff Richard.

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# Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, living doll... #

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And, I know it sounds rather ridiculous,

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but he was considered quite raunchy when I was young.

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He did have a sort of mean, moody look.

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# Take a look at her hair... #

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Jacqueline, you are not alone.

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Sir Cliff Richard, as he's known today,

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was one of Britain's first-ever popstars,

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a bit of a Justin Bieber of his day with very similar hair.

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He first hit the charts in 1958...

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# Christmas is love... #

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..and he's been so popular that he's had a number one

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in every decade until the year 2000.

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Sam and Mark are also big fans

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and even did a parody of this music video, Mistletoe and Wine.

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# Christmastime, mistletoe and wine... #

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So, while Jacqueline was figuring out how to listen to pop music,

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in Islington, Alexandra Burke was listening to anything she could.

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At the age of 12, I was listening to Al Green, Gladys Knight,

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Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey,

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Whitney Houston, Aaliyah, Boyz II Men...

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-So Alexandra liked a lot of music.

-..Spice Girls.

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-Oh, has she not...

-Take That, erm...

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As I was saying... Oh, she's not finished.

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-SWV, erm, TLC as well.

-Let's...

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I mean, no, for real, let's keep this going.

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No, let's move on. Come on, now.

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-Who was that rapper? Limp Bizkit?

-What?!

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# Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'... #

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I used to listen to him. "Rollin', rollin', rollin'..."

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I appreciate music. Full stop.

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I mean, for me, as a person who wanted to be a singer,

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it kind of made me realise

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where I wanted to go and what direction I wanted to go in.

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And that direction was to appear in the hit TV

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singing competition Star For A Night.

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The whole school knew that I was on it apart from me

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because my mum had told the head teacher.

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My mum had set it all up so they'd come in the school and surprise me.

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Star For A Night was a show that would surprise people

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and give them a chance to be, er, well, a star for a night.

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I remember the day of the surprise and my mum was like,

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"Your hair's not looking that great. Let's go to the hairdresser's."

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I was like, "But Mum, I've got school. I've got English. I'm not..."

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She goes, "You're going to the hairdresser's."

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'I get to school, don't know what's going on, start playing the piano.'

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Oh, my God!

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'Next thing you know, Jane McDonald walks in the classroom

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'and I'm, like, freaking out.'

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's rewind.

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-Oh, my God!

-I've seen that face before.

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# It's not a cry that you hear at night... #

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Let's take a look at Alexandra's first single

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and compare her face from when she won the X Factor.

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Hallelujah, indeed! They are exactly the same face.

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# When somebody reaches for your heart... #

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And when I actually got onto the TV show,

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my whole school was so behind me.

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They, like, put posters up for everyone to watch it.

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They were very supportive. And I got really popular, very quickly.

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The winner on Junior Star For A Night is...

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..Joss Stone.

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I didn't win. Joss Stone actually won the show.

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You mean Grammy-award-winning soul singer Joss Stone?

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# Wait a minute, wait a minute... #

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-Fair enough!

-I just kept going from there.

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That's when I was like, "All right, cool.

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"I have to be in school choirs, church choirs."

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I was just singing whenever I could sing.

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Whenever anyone would listen to me and I weren't yapping, I was singing.

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That's the way forward. That's what I would do.

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Still to come, we catch up with One Direction

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and find out all the goss from when they were 12.

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All the girls would do those faces where

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they don't even look like they're enjoying themselves,

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just like...

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Mark has a go at a well-known celebrity.

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John Barrowman, if you are listening,

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what was going on with your waistcoat, mate?

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And Jacqueline remembers a not-so-golden age of CBBC.

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Children's television was pretty basic then.

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But, first, it's time to find out what news stories

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had a lasting effect on young Sam and Mark, Jacqueline and Alexandra.

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The big news when I was 12 is that the Spice Girls,

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major girl group, had been around for quite some time,

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but Geri Halliwell decided to leave the band.

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I didn't know what to do with meself when she left.

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Crazy.

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Hello, and first, fans across the world are coming to terms

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with Geri's decision to leave the Spiceworld behind her.

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She blamed differences between her and the other girls.

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The Spice Girls were the biggest girl band of the '90s

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and Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice,

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was one of the most popular members.

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This is a message to the fans,

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"Sadly, I would like to confirm that I have left the Spice Girls.

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"This is because of differences between us."

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Back then, when somebody left a major group like that,

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it was like the end of the world.

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-Yeah. Well, for fans, yeah.

-Yeah, people, like, started crying.

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Geri was my favourite so, actually, I did start crying.

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Now that Geri's leaving,

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she's sort of letting the whole country down.

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Steady on!

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# Too much of something is bad enough... #

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It was mad because it was on the news

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that Geri Halliwell had left the Spice Girls.

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Now, I don't think, if a member of The Saturdays left,

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it would be on the 10 o'clock news at night.

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-But it was weird, wasn't it, back then?

-Yeah.

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While Spice Girl fans were upset

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with the news of Geri leaving the band,

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when Alexandra was 12, a news story affected the entire nation.

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Hello, our top stories this afternoon,

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closing the countryside, foot-and-mouth takes hold.

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I remember in 2001 when I was 12, the big story was foot-and-mouth disease.

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Foot-and-mouth was a highly infectious disease that affected

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any farm animal with hooves, such as pigs, sheep and cows.

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There were more than 2,000 cases of foot-and-mouth in Britain in 2001.

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To stop the disease from becoming worse,

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millions of animals were put down.

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Not only did the disease had a massive effect on the farmers

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and their businesses around the country, but tourism

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and other industries were also affected.

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The images from around the countryside that year

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will always remain in peoples' memories.

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We used to go to our local farm and stuff every, kind of, weekend.

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So being around animals, we loved animals.

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The disease took around nine months to control before Britain

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was declared free from foot-and-mouth.

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Since then, strict rules have been put in place

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so an outbreak as bad as 2001 will hopefully never happen again.

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When Jacqueline was 12, one big sporting team had its darkest hour.

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Here is the news.

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So far, we know there are 23 survivors

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after Manchester United's air crash at Munich this afternoon.

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I remember when most of the Manchester United football team

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were in an air crash.

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On the 6th of February 1958,

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one of the worst sporting disasters in history happened.

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The Manchester United team, known as the Busby Babes,

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were flying back to England after a match in Belgrade.

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The plane stopped off in Munich

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but when it tried to take off again, sadly it crashed.

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23 people died in the crash, including eight of the team,

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and the news came as a shock to everyone in the country.

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It was huge headlines and everybody thought how disastrous this was.

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I'd never flown at all. Most kids of 12 had never had an experience.

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I did go on a school trip later when I was 15 and I remember that,

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before the plane took off, we were all terrified.

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After recovering from the crash, manager Sir Matt Busby

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began to build a new team out of respect

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to the players who had lost their lives.

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Not only did that new team win their first match,

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they also made it all the way to the FA Cup final.

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Manchester United are now one of the world's biggest teams

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and a statue of Sir Matt Busby stands

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outside the stadium, in honour of him

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and the team that lost their lives in that crash.

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Still to come, we ask the all-important question,

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what would our celebs do if they were 12 again?

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I wish I could change the fact that I was a little bit cocky

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and a little bit arrogant.

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It's an age of transition. There's no other age quite like it.

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You've really got to concentrate. You can't take that time for granted.

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But, first, we caught up with One Direction

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and they told us what they were like when they were 12.

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# You don't know Oh, oh, oh

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# You don't know you're beautiful... #

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One Direction may not know that they are beautiful

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but when Liam, Niall, Zayn, Louis and Harry were 12,

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they were a bunch of lads who didn't want to go to school discos.

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The thing is, with the school discos is, like, most guys

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actually didn't want to go.

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But if you didn't go, you weren't cool, so you had to go to the disco.

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All the girls would be dancing and do those faces

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where they don't even look like they're enjoying it, just like...

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and all the guys would be sat round thinking,

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"I really want to go and talk to her but I can't."

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Er, that's my dance move! But, come on, guys, what about girls?

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School disco when I was 12.

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There was a girl in my year, hadn't spoke to her much before at all.

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Spoke to her for a little bit at the disco

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and then started going out with her.

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And then I went on holiday

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and I think we broke up as soon as soon as we got back.

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Aw, Harry, that's such a shame!

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# It's got to be you... #

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I didn't think I looked very cool when I was 12.

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I think my sisters used to dress me every so often

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because I had older sisters.

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Yeah, they always used to try and influence my fashion a little bit,

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which, you know, may have involved a high heel or two.

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OK...

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Despite the dubious fashion choices, what were the boys listening to?

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When I was 12, I loved Peter Andre.

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# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Mysterious girl

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# Move your body... #

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When we first got put together, we all spent a week together

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and me and Liam found our mutual love for him cos Liam used to love him

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as well when he was younger.

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-Used to, yeah. Used to.

-You still love him, don't you?

-Yeah.

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-12 was like...

-Just fun. Just fun.

-Yeah, that was a really fun year.

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I think the fact that you can kind of be so carefree.

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For me, it was a really, really fun year of my life.

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Oh, Louis's my favourite. And Harry. And you, Niall. And you, too, Liam.

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Oh, you're all so lovely! Right, OK!

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Back to Sam and Mark, Jacqueline and Alexandra,

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and find out what TV shows they were watching when they were 12.

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When I was 12, the Saturday morning show of choice was Live And Kicking.

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Live and Kicking was essential viewing on a Saturday morning.

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Well, all of Saturday morning, actually.

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The show lasted three and a quarter hours.

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We will have the best, the most high-quality entertainment for

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the next three and a quarter hours that you could possibly have.

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Not only was it the place to see all your favourite pop idols...

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SHOUTING AND LAUGHTER

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..it was also home to comedy duo Trevor and Simon,

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the Dick and Dom of their day.

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Ooh, ooh, watch out for the rolls there.

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Stop the car. What Rolls? I can't a limousine anywhere.

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No, the rolls, the rolls!

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Live and Kicking had loads of presenters

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but when Mark was 12, it was Andi Peters and Emma Forbes,

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but they were joined by none other than Doctor Who star John Barrowman.

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Sir.

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John Barrowman was actually a presenter...

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-Of Tonight's The Night fame?.

-Indeed, indeed.

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-What a packed show it is, Emma, today, isn't it?

-Unbelievable.

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He wore some horrendous shirts, John Barrowman.

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-Look at that. Pure, sheer muscle.

-Yeah!

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Waistcoats that, like, oh, wow!

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I knew that was going to happen.

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Yeah, John Barrowman may be able to

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sing, dance and act, but don't let that man near a wardrobe.

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John Barrowman, if you are listening,

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what was going on with your waistcoat, mate?

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-He wears some pretty bad suits

-these

-days!

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While Sam and Mark were TV's fashion police,

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in Islington, Alexandra was watching...well, a lot.

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I loved Kenan & Kel, Sister, Sister, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Alex Mack.

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I used to also watch Blue Peter all time.

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Erm, Rugrats. I still watch Rugrats. It's crazy. Er...

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All right, we get the point.

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You liked a lot of kids' TV back then,

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but in 1957, kids' TV was anything but fun for Jacqueline.

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When I was 12, I think you could get two television channels.

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Children's television was pretty basic then.

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Erm, excuse me, what's basic about this?

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Flobbada flobbata, flobba lob sclob.

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Flobba lob sclob.

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OK, OK, it's quite basic.

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So basic in fact,

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Jacqueline turned her attention to what her parents were watching.

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I particularly liked, though, a programme for families,

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which was called The Grove Family...

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Remember, if anybody talks, I shall have something to say.

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..which was the first funny domestic drama long before all the soaps.

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There was a terrible old granny and a mum and a dad and, I think,

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a schoolboy and schoolgirl.

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The Grove Family was one of the country's first-ever dramas,

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a bit like the EastEnders of its day.

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I'm not here for you to play jokes on.

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You won't believe some of the things that happened in The Grove Family.

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It was mad! Like the time the granny properly kicked off

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cos her food was not good enough!

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Would you like another helping of stew?

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No, thank you. I can't get through this.

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Always the same when Gladys is away. That's only fit for a dog.

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Thank you very much(!) I wonder why people always say that.

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OK, maybe not that exciting, but it all kicks off in this scene!

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-Hello. I just put my bags on the taxi. How are you today?

-Fine.

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-Morning, dear. What a lovely dress.

-Oh, thank you.

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Right, off we go, then. Oh, hello, Jane.

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OK, so maybe it's not that exciting, then.

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It probably looks terribly dated now

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but it really seemed realistic to us watching it.

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Even though TV was a bit basic back then,

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it will always remain in Jacqueline's memory.

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But what do our celebrities remember most about being 12?

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When I was 12, I definitely was feeling

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that transition of being a young kid to turning into a teenager.

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And, you know, it was difficult at times, obviously.

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But that transition was great.

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Scary, because you're about to become a young,

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a young person, like a young grown-up.

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You've really got to concentrate. You can't take that time for granted.

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The best thing about being 12 was not having any cares in the world.

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You're in your own little fantasy world where everything was great.

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It was just a really, really nice time.

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I do think you are sort of fizzing over with happiness

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and yet also, there's the other side,

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where you can be tremendously despairing.

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But you are experiencing life with a real deep intensity that age.

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I wish I could change the fact that I was a little bit cocky

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and a little bit arrogant.

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Don't answer back. Just be nicer to people.

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If I was 12 again, I'd probably embrace it a little bit more.

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Embrace the fact that...

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..I was kind of popular!

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It's a difficult age because part of me longed to wear lipstick

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and to be able to go out with a boyfriend, say.

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And yet I would want to be looking at my paper dolls

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and doing all sorts of quite childish things, too.

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I mean, perhaps that's the advantage of being 12, that you can

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sometimes behave like a 9-year-old and sometimes pretend that you're 16.

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Whatever. But it's an age of transition.

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There's no other age quite like it.

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So what have we learnt?

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If you're ever cooking for your granny,

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make sure it's not overcooked.

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That's only fit for a dog.

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If in a girl band and thinking of leaving,

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always consider how it will affect your fans.

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She's sort of letting the whole country down.

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And, even though you don't stay 12 for ever,

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some people just don't change that much when they grow up.

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