Her Strictly performances were exceptional but the British public’s love of an underdog did her no favours. More’s the pityAlexandra Burke has been speaking up for confidence,telling BBC News that the UK has “a massive problem” with mistaking self-belief for arrogance. Burke managed not to win Strictly advance Dancing in 2017 despite consistently dancing better than all of the other contestants. There was a feeling that the audience had not warmed to her, based on the fact that viewers regularly tweeted things such as “fake” and “false” and said she had too much experience as a dancer to win a best dancer competition.It’s a shame that some people mistook that determination and that will to want to do well, and which everyone should have in life by the way,for arrogance or anything other than what it was,” she told the BBC final week. Burke became renowned when she won The X Factor in 2008, and after duetting with Beyoncé,a superstar now so aloof that she doesn’t bother with interviews, issuing only original photographs, or which I imagine she peels from a pile and scatters like banknotes at the feet of desperate editors. Their version of Listen ended with Burke sobbing on Beyonc’s shoulder,before Dermot O’Leary tied a ribbon around this odd time capsule by calling Beyoncé “hun”. It feels like longer than 10 years ago.
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Source: guardian.co.uk