Alexandra Burke is rummaging through her handbag, searching for her phone, eager to show me a photo. “Oh, babe, you gotta see this,” she squeals. “I’m so glad you asked.”
What I had asked Burke is how hot does she look in a habit. The X Factor winner, best known of late for her leading role in the hit musical The Bodyguard, has a huge new job on her (fabulously manicured) hands. As of next week she will be Deloris Van Cartier, aka Sister Mary Clarence, the fake nun made famous by Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act, the 1990s film comedy since turned into a stage musical.
A new touring production by the Curve theatre, Leicester, has bagged Burke straight from a wildly