JUNGLE DIVA!

選び出す／独身 mum Stacey Solomon mesmerised The X Factor with her powerful 発言する／表明する (and her ditzy witterings!). As she enters the I'm A Celebrity ジャングル, she 明らかにする／漏らすs why she's willing to 耐える hunger and humiliation to give her son a better life

By Rebecca Hardy for MailOnline
Updated: 13:09 BST, 13 November 2010

No ditzy blonde: Stacey Solomon has dyed her hair dark again

Stacey Solomon doesn't do ditzy blonde any more. 井戸／弁護士席, not blonde, anyway.

The Dagenham Diva who endeared herself to millions on last year's The X Factor with her breathless 'Staceyisms' has done a Jordan. Yup, those 署名 blonde locks are no more. Stacey's gone dark, very dark and, boy, in her Ugg boots and diamant?-studded tracksuit, she's a dead ringer for Katie Price. Although, 存在 Stacey, it's not やめる as straightforward as that.

'You can't go from blonde to brown, so I had to put a red 色合い in to make it warm,' she says.?

'I like a change. You know how it is. You have a change and you think, "Oh, I'm a new woman". But, oh no, nothing like Katie Price. This is my 直面する. I can't change my 直面する and I 港／避難所't got the guts for a boob 職業. 明白に, when I take my bra off 地雷 攻撃する，衝突する my 膝s. It's because I've had a baby. I'd love to have boobs that stick there. But I can wear a bra. No one's going to see me with boobs on the 床に打ち倒す.'

She says all of this with the 豊富 of breathless shrieks and a paucity of consonants that helped her to 勝利，勝つ the hearts and souls of the British public and a place in The X Factor 決勝戦.

Stacey, you see, is very, very excited. She is, it turns out, 準備するing herself for the rigours of the ジャングル, where she'll be tomorrow on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

Hair colour: check. 拡張s: check. Nails: check. Tattooed eyebrows: check. Dear, oh dear, you'd think she was off for a spa break with the girls.

'It's going to be fun,' she says. 'Imagine cooking together and doing 仕事s together. Everything we do, we do together. If I get a 星／主役にする, people might clap. That's what I keep thinking about, coming 支援する to （軍の）野営地，陣営 with lots of 星／主役にするs.' Stacey, sweetie, get a 支配する. The ジャングル isn't 正確に／まさに a Girl Guides （軍の）野営地，陣営.

'Oh, I know I'll be eating cockroaches. But if you tell yourself you can do it, you'll do it. I really believe that.

'It's a stupid example, but 自然に my hair is almost jet 黒人／ボイコット. No 事柄 how many people said, "You cannot go blonde, it will go green", I had to go bleached blonde. I could not have people tell me, "You can't". How can you say that? How do you know?

'I really believe that if you think in your 長，率いる, "I will go blonde, I can go blonde, I'm going to go blonde", and say to someone, "Bleach my hair, that's what I want", then you will go blonde because you think it. You've got to think it. Think 肯定的な.'?

She's 権利. The blonde analogy is stupid. Even her スパイ／執行官 thinks so. He's standing a few feet away shaking his 長，率いる. Because Stacey is nowhere 近づく as ditzy as she seems. She has 13 GCSEs, a diploma in 成し遂げるing arts, swimming badges, grade 7 on the piano, grade 3 on the violin. Oh, and the oomph to get up off her backside after 落ちるing 妊娠している at 17 to return to college and make something of her life.

Only, she doesn't really talk much about this Stacey, preferring instead to give us the Stacey of the dizzy one-liners - asked what she would do if she didn't get into The X Factor 決勝戦, she said, '井戸／弁護士席, there's always Asda'.

'I've had many things that have made me sad,' she says. 'I don't know one person in this world who hasn't. When I was 18, two of my friends died in a car 衝突，墜落. That was sad. There's nothing sadder than losing someone. It 影響する／感情s you. Every time I wake up, I don't think of bad things, I get excited for the day. I think, "I'm alive. Phew, I woke up".

'When my mum and dad 分裂（する） up, that was sad. I was seven years old. At that age you want them to be together because that's how mums and dads should be. You want that fairytale. And, yes, when I discovered I was 妊娠している with Zach [her son is now two years old], that was sad.

'Don't get me wrong, I love him to pieces. He was the best worst thing that could ever happen, but I didn't want to have a baby with no dad. I knew how hard I'd worked at 成し遂げるing arts college, and that they wouldn't let me carry on 妊娠している because I was in a dance class. I didn't want to give up college. I was 荒廃させるd. 荒廃させるd and shocked.

'So, yes, I'm attracted to a Disney world. I'm attracted to 会合 a prince and 存在 beautiful and having lovely 着せる／賦与するs and everything 存在 perfect and everyone 存在 happy. I want to be married one day. I want a house - I want a house so 不正に. I want my own house for me and Zach and, please God, if I have a 関係 with a good person, I want a home. Our home. It'll be like fairy dust everywhere. I'll have my own pictures on the 塀で囲むs.'

Stacey wants all of this so 不正に, she's in 涙／ほころびs. It's obvious I'm A Celebrity... isn't just about chasing fame, it's a way of 達成するing her Disney lifestyle. But she wants to 勝利，勝つ, so along with the 拡張s and nails, Stacey has been 熟考する／考慮するing bush tucker 裁判，公判 upon bush tucker 裁判，公判. She's been 押し進めるing herself to get fit. When we 会合，会う の直前に she 飛行機で行くs off to the ジャングル, she looks lovely, with a tiny waist, those boobs hoisted high in a bra and dewy 肌.

'I've never 推定する／予想するd anything from anyone in my life,' she says. 'For me to sit there after Zach and never work again - to live on handouts - would have been 完全に wrong. If you can't 肉体的に work, that's what 利益s are for. But I can.

'For a minute after his birth, I sat there feeling sorry for myself, thinking my life and dreams were over. But then you realise it isn't that hard to get up, find out where you can put him into a decent nursery. Make sure you can see him every minute you've got off - and 熟考する／考慮する to build a better life for him.

'Nothing's going to just come to you. You have to make it happen for yourself. I've just got this thing in me. I want to experience everything. I must be ambitious or I wouldn't be going into the ジャングル. I wouldn't have been on The X Factor. I just want to be successful in whatever I do.

The best experience: Stacey last year during the X Factor with son Zach and her 助言者 Dannii Minogue

'Everything I do I put my heart into and that's the honest truth. Even if someone said, "Draw a Christmas card", I'd put everything into it. It probably sounds stupid.' No, she doesn't sound stupid. In fact, this 焦点（を合わせる）d, 決定するd Stacey is anything but.

The middle of three children born to Fiona, a civil servant, and David, a photographer, she'd worked her backside off to be, as her mother drummed into her, 'anything she 手配中の，お尋ね者'.

She was just 17 and had begun her first 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 of a 成し遂げるing arts diploma at college, when she 突然に became 妊娠している by her first 'proper' boyfriend, Dean Cox.

Stacey says she felt shocked. Indeed, her entire family was in shock. に引き続いて her 離婚 from Stacey's father, her mother had 充てるd her life to helping her daughter to realise her dreams.

'She'd come home from work and take me to wherever I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to go: piano lessons, swimming lessons. She knew I had so many dreams. Mum spent her life doing things for me to help me be successful. When I told her I was 妊娠している she just said, "I'm disappointed for you". That was sad.

'When Zach was born, I remember 持つ／拘留するing him for the first time, thinking, "I just want to sleep". But I couldn't because I was breast-feeding him. Someone told me that was the best thing to do, but it was so hard. He was up all night.

'The visiting hours were only 2-4pm. I remember thinking, "What am I going to do with him on my own?" I was crying and the nurse said, "You can't cry. You're a mother now". That made me cry all the more.'

Stacey says for the first three months after Zach's birth she switched off, gave up.

'I didn't talk to anyone,' she says. 'I don't know if it was because I was tired or because I didn't know what was happening. I didn't know what to 推定する／予想する or what to do. For three months it was as if I wasn't the re. I just remember feeling numb. It probably sounds silly but I don't 現実に remember 存在 there.' Again, it doesn't.

'I think that stopped when I finished breast-feeding and he had a 瓶／封じ込める and went to sleep all night. That was when I began thinking, "I might be able to have a life".

'My mum sent me on holiday to the Greek island of Kos with two friends for a week. I 行方不明になるd Zach so much. I remember thinking, "What if he's crying and he needs me?" But when I （機の）カム 支援する and could see he was 罰金 without me, I thought, "Why have I been sitting around? I can do anything".

'When I first had him I thought, "He's going to need me every minute of the day". But I could see he didn't. I thought, "I'm not dead. I can have a life. I'm not going to get stuck in a 職業 and have to do it for the 残り／休憩（する） of my life".

'When my mum and dad 分裂（する） up, Mum had to just carry on - not 会合，会う anyone, not talk to anyone, just make sure whatever she did was 単独で for us.'?

Third place: At last year's X Factor final with rnner up Olly Murs and 結局の 勝利者 Joe McElderry

So Stacey 設立する a college with a cr?che, 熟考する／考慮するd during the day and worked at night as a waitress to support herself and her son - until The X Factor. She 結局 （機の）カム third.

'Th e X Factor was the best experience of my life,' she says. 'When Dermot [O'Leary] told me I'd come third, I was so proud of myself. I've never come anywhere in anything in my life.' And no, she's not 存在 ditzy.

'Look what it's given me. I never dreamt that one day I'd be walking 負かす／撃墜する the red carpet with Sarah Jessica Parker to watch Sex And The City with my sister.

'The fact is, I can do that and I've got a child and I've made money singing for a living, which is what I've always want to do - and, please God, good money, so in ten years time I'll have enough put away to give Zach whatever he wants. So yes, I think I'm the luckiest girl in the world. Yes, I believe in the happy-ever-after. For me, my dreams are coming true.'

Indeed, she tells me she's stuck £100,000 away since The X Factor and is now happily dating a 地元の painter whom she's known as a friend for the past three years.

Zach's father is also part of his son's life. 'Do you know, when I was 押し進めるing that pram around and people were making me feel ashamed for 存在 a 選び出す／独身 mum, it made me 決定するd not to lead a dead-end life. And now I get to jump out of an aeroplane for I'm A Celebrity...

'See,' she 追加するs. 'It's just like when I went blonde: you can do anything if you believe you can. I just want to walk into the ジャングル with no 戦略 - just a fresh 長，率いる and have fun.'

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, ITV1, Sunday, 9pm.