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Jesy Nelson

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1031 total appearances

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Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

Like what, you know, future wise?

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And I said, well, I want to be a singer.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And she looked at me and she said, right, well, I don't think that's going to happen.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And I was like,

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

Okay.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And she was like, I think you need to start, you know, really knuckling down and taking school seriously because that's... Because that's what you need to do in order to succeed, right?

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And then the funny thing was, was when I wasn't expecting, they wanted me to come back and give a speech.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And I thought, all right, well, I'll tell her what you said then.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

I'll give that speech, shall I?

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

I went to like four different schools.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

Yeah, so went to one with my brothers and my sister was the first one.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And then I left because I wanted to go to like a proper theatre school.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

So I went to Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And Rita Ora was in my class.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

Yeah.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

So yeah, so I went to Sylvia, so bless my mum.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

So I had to audition for that and it was for a scholarship and I got down to the last three.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

I never got the scholarship and my mum knew how much I wanted to go.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

So she just worked every job under the sun to be able to pay for the fees to go.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 2: Why I Walked Away From Little Mix

And I went and I loved certain parts of it.