january-2010
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With a solo album, a feature<br />
fi lm and regular TV hosting gig<br />
last year alone, there seems<br />
to be no stopping the multitalented<br />
entertainer Natalie<br />
Bassingthwaighte<br />
WORDS KATHY BUCHANAN<br />
She’s<br />
a sexy acting, singing and<br />
dancing machine. Former<br />
country girl Natalie Bassingthwaighte is<br />
currently hosting Australia’s So You Think You<br />
Can Dance, starring in the hotly anticipated<br />
Underbelly 3 and has had a number 1 debut<br />
album 1000 Stars. Triple threat, anyone?<br />
Running an hour late from a photoshoot<br />
in central Sydney, Bassingthwaighte, 34,<br />
rushes madly into the trendy Bambini Trust<br />
restaurant, plonks down into a chair and<br />
says, “Sorry, today is absolutely crazy.” She<br />
pauses for a second to shake my hand, then<br />
immediately grabs the menu — not even<br />
noticing the admiring looks she’s getting in her<br />
cool black top and skinny jeans — adding “I’m<br />
absolutely starving!”<br />
Fifteen minutes later, while chomping into<br />
a seafood salad, this Aussie blue-eyed blonde<br />
hasn’t stopped talking enthusiastically about<br />
the exciting year ahead. The petite star,<br />
standing at just 1.61cm, grew up in Wollongong,<br />
New South Wales, spending weekends helping<br />
out at her nearby grandparents’ sheep farm.<br />
“Actually, we played at the farm more than<br />
worked. Jumping on haystacks, riding around<br />
on motorbikes and catching sheep. It was a big<br />
part of our time growing up,” she explains.<br />
Bassingthwaighte<br />
backstage on So You Think<br />
You Can Dance<br />
STAR STRUCK<br />
NATALIE N BASSINGTHWAIGHTE<br />
JANUARY <strong>2010</strong> 19
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