Coming off the back of her 05am performance at last week's Mardi Gras, the "SMH.com.au" website can reveal Samantha Jade is on board with iconic aussie brand "Weet-Bix".
Usually the domain of sporting heroes such as Brett Lee, Tim Cahill and Stephanie Gilmore, Jade is the first musician to be targeted by the homegrown brand to share the start-the-day-right message.
''I love my Weet-Bix,'' Jade told the "SMH.com.au" website this week, sounding like a cheesy advertorial, until she owned up to spreading the brick-like cereal with sugar and honey. She also admitted when she lived in the US, she stocked up on "Weet-Bix" and "Twisties" by the boxful on trips home.
Jade and dance act Justice Crew are looking to make a track about being ''raised'' in Australia and are asking punters to submit their favourite australian moments via social media with the hashtag #RaisedOnWeetBix.
Meanwhile, the pocket-rocket singer had several other messages she wanted to spread last week, starting with gay marriage and anti-bullying, heightened by the death of Charlotte Dawson.
"The X Factor Australia" winner, most recently seen on screens as Kylie Minogue in "INXS: Never Tear Us Apart", says our laws on gay marriage are archaic:
''To me, love is love, and if you want to commit to somebody else through marriage then that is your choice whether you be straight, gay, bi, whatever, i think it's crazy we're not allowed. It's so unfair and caveman of us,'' she said.
Having also been a target of Twitter trolls, not only when she was a contestant on "The X Factor Australia", but more recently when she was trolled after asking for prayers when her mum was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, Jade knows too well the horrors of online bullying:
''I hope this brings awareness to people who think they can just say horrible things. "Keyboard warriors", i call them. I hope this brings awareness [that] you should bring love and not hate.''
Jade says she ''proudly'' only has five ''real friends'' on Facebook and she learned the hard way when she was on "The X Factor Australia" how abusive people could be online:
''I got so much hate and not just from people my age. One of my mum's old friends was going around writing nasty things about me. This was a woman i had known since i was three.''
As for the Kylie comparisons that keep rolling in, Jade is thrilled:
''I'll take it. I'm a massive fan. I think all australian pop females coming up are.''
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