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| Girls Of S Club |
| FULL NAME: JOANNE O'MEARA BORN: 29 APRIL 1979 STARSIGN: TAURUS HEIGHT: 5ft 4in COLOUR OF EYES: BLUE |
| then he cheated on me with another girl and broke my heart.' It was in her early teens that Jo realized that despite initially wanting to become an air hostess, what she really wanted was a career in music. 'Up until then I'd be too shy to even get up on a karaoke machine. But something inside me decided that singing was for me.' After leaving school, Jo worked in a pet shop and a supermarket before she had her first taste of musical success as a backing singer. 'It was a family friend called Annette who really inspired me to go for it with the singing. She's got the most unbelievable voice and she really helped me out with contracts and stuff. She was amazing.' Soon Jo found herself working in a country-and-western theme pub, where she got to sing onstage every night. 'Our hours were six in the evening until midnight, so I got to sleep all day and then sing and have a good time in the evening. It was my perfect job!' And it was while she was doing the hoedown that she was spotted by someone from S Club 7's management company, 19, who just happened to have popped in for dinner. But it wasn't until two years later that Jo got a phone call from 19 asking her to go along to the S Club 7 auditions. 'I was really nervous going to the auditions because I still wasn't very confident, but I was so, so happy when I got the phone call to say that I'd got into the band. I think at that point, one of the reasons I really wanted to make it as a singer was to show everyone who had given me such a hard time over the years. |
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