Gabriella Cilmi’s ‘Sweet About Me’ is the sound of the summer. But where did this teen pop sensation spring from? And how on earth do you pronounce her surname? Interview by Nick Duerden
Gabriella Cilmi spent most of the day before our interview being photographed on the Thames by the Australian press, the Oz media keen for a glamorous snapshot of the girl from Down Under making a splash on the other side of the world. Given that this is the most unpredictable British summer since that of 2007, it wasn't quite the pleasure it perhaps should have been.
"In the space of a couple of hours we had practically every season of the year flung at us," she says afterwards, eyes as heavy as a panda's (she is still in full make-up) and looking, in this light at least, not unlike Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria. "I was rained on, blinded by the sun, battered by the wind, and then it got really cold." She laughs incredulously. "I've never known anything like it."
But then it was a day of firsts for Cilmi (it's pronounced, incidentally, "chill-me"), as she was also aggressively papped, something that had never happened to her before. There were several
"In the space of a couple of hours we had practically every season of the year flung at us," she says afterwards, eyes as heavy as a panda's (she is still in full make-up) and looking, in this light at least, not unlike Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria. "I was rained on, blinded by the sun, battered by the wind, and then it got really cold." She laughs incredulously. "I've never known anything like it."
But then it was a day of firsts for Cilmi (it's pronounced, incidentally, "chill-me"), as she was also aggressively papped, something that had never happened to her before. There were several
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