ITV's Pop Idol Saturday 27th Sept VOTE ROXANNE! By Mo

Mary Rye-Cooper was picking up her two youngest children Shaka aged 10 and Ry aged 7 from St Vincent's School playground when I noticed her handbag full of VOTE ROXANNE flyers. I needed no further cue to approach and find out more about it for www.thisisull.com readers. Roxanne is her oldest 16 year old daughter and she is appearing on ITV's "Pop Idol" at about 7pm on Saturday 27th September 2003. A competition that started with 24,000 contestants is now down to the last 44, and Roxanne is the youngest remaining. Now that is some achievement for 16 year old lass from Hull, something we can all be proud about.

Mary is full of praise and support for her offspring although she freely admits to the "Pressure of auditions, with endless waiting for phone calls that follow" . Each hurdle successfully overcome has been more of a surprise for Roxanne than Mary who beams with confidence at her daughter's undoubted talent for her singing performances.

Roxanne finished Newland Girls School this summer and is starting at the Riley Centre this November. It has always been her dream to become a recording artist, she sings mainly to backing tracks and is more of a performer than a songwriter although she has written her own lyrics to several songs. Roxanne also attends Tracey Oatman's Stage Struck above the drum shop along the Beverley Road. There she learns skills from handling a microphone to creating a stage presence. The Julie Hames School of Dance on Spring Bank is where her dancing schooling takes place.

Roxanne adds, "It's my grandmother on my dads side, who is the only singer in the family and my mother's college day's activities encouraged me to dance ballet from the age of four." Roxanne's dad is accompanying her down in London at least until Monday depending on the outcome of this Saturday's show on ITV's POP Idol. continued below..

ITV's Pop Idol Saturday 27th Sept VOTE ROXANNE! continued By Mo

Her father is thrilled although he hardly gets to see Roxanne at all, as she leaves for ITV recording studios in Teddington at 8:30 am for rehearsals talking to the press and so on. He doesn't get a peek in until her return at 7:30pm in the evening.

Its Roxannes 17th birthday on November 6th so heres an early presnt all of Hull can give her, the show starts at about 7pm on Saturday 27th September and voting takes place between about 8pm and 9pm, VOTE ROXANNE our girl from Hull.

Send her an Email from www.thisisull.com in Hull. Roxanne Email at Pop Idol Visit the Pop Idol website. http://www.itv.com/popidol

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