"When I finally met Heidi and Amelle it was like a blind date"
Full name: Jade Almarie Louise Ewen
DOB: January 24, 1988
Place of birth: Plaistow, London, England
Occupation: Singer, Actress, Model
DOB: January 24, 1988
Place of birth: Plaistow, London, England
Occupation: Singer, Actress, Model
Jade Ewen facts
- Sugababe Jade is also the face of Ultimo lingerie.
- She gets her looks from a Jamaican mother and a Scottish-Sicilian father.
- She came 5th in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, which is a pretty decent effort seeing as we've been getting used to "nil points".
- She's going out with EastEnders actor Ricky Norwood.
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Jade Ewen is the latest in a long list of Sugababes who, if previous history is anything to go by, has anything from 2 to 9 years left with the group. But one thing we do know for sure is that she is going to leave, at some point, and the group will carry on with the same name and totally different members until the end of time. ProbablyHaving got in to a theatre school, Jade was an actress before she was a singer, appearing in The Bill and Casualty. She even made it to the West End, landing the part of Nala in The Lion King when she was just 12 – exactly as The Saturdays member Vanessa White has done since having been to the same theatre school. They must know ‘people’. Then, still only 14, she sold her soul and appeared in a Busted video.
Still, after that she tried to sort her life out again. She was a member of a different girl group called Trinity Stone, which did absolutely nothing in two years and then broke up. Not to be denied though, Jade carried on in the music industry, recording and co-writing songs here and there before getting selected to represent the UK in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Then later that year, she was announced as the replacement for Keisha in the Sugababes, even though she says she had no idea she was joining the group when she flew out to film a video with them. Come on now Jade, surely you had an inkling…
