Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts

Saturday, April 29, 2023

29/04/23 - Samantha Jade and Pat Handlin at Kyle Sandilands and Tegan Kynaston's wedding in Sydney

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''My Girl'' (The Temptations cover):


''I Will Survive'' (Gloria Gaynor) with Guy Sebastian:

Monday, December 12, 2022

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

20/07/22 - Samantha Jade interviewed for the website ''Perth Now''

Samantha Jade gets candid with ''Perth Now'' as she arrives back in western Australia.

If you think you’ve spotted Samantha Jade around town, that’s no look alike, it’s really her!

The western Australia treasure is back in our beautiful state and she sat down with ''Perth Now'' ahead of her return.

Jade recently made headlines when she appeared on the 2022 season of ''The Celebrity Apprentice Australia'', but it’s her latest single ''Dance Again'' that has everyone moving and grooving:

“I hadn’t had a song in a while and that’s always a nerve-racking, slash exciting moment because you can kind of do whatever you want because it’s been a while. But also coming back in has always been a bit of a challenge too”; she explained to ''Perth Now'', ''I wanted to put something out that felt real for me at the time...i suffer from anxiety so that (Covid-19) really heightened my anxiety for a little while, but also gave me a lot of time to reflect. So i wanted to write this song about positivity and kind of seeing the light in the dark and kind of turning the mindset to being happy instead of sad.”

The singer said that the ever-changing music industry means fans won’t get an album anytime soon:

“It’s exciting to be in charge of my own destiny right now and go: "Well, i don’t have to do the album thing", also it’s a huge piece of work and it’s so different these days, things are received differently, things are played differently and the days of just putting albums out has changed.”

The 35-year-old is expected to wed her long-term partner Pat Handlin sometime this year. The couple’s nuptials were heavily delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic which separated her from her western Australia family:

“Perth borders did not open for a long time and so we started planning and then they just kept closing, so i was like: "There’s no point planning", because it’s just first of all, it’s really expensive, and second of all, it’s just heartbreaking to (cancel)”, she explained, “So we’re just gonna wait till they’re completely open and have been open for at least a few months so that there’s no threat of closing again.”

"The X Factor Australia" winner has conquered the music world and she’s ready to take on the competitive beauty world.

Jade is set to launch her own make-up, and although she remained mostly tight-lipped she did give a few hints:

“I had a make-up line in "Priceline" a few years ago and it was one of the most fun things...i am working on something right now that’s not out yet but will be out very soon...it’s a bit of a specific thing, but i can’t say anything yet, i’m sworn to secrecy, but it’s a bit of a specific thing in the make-up world”, she said.

The "ARIA"-winning star said one of her first stops, besides seeing her family, is going to Beaufort Street:

“Even just walking down that street and i feel my mum is there wheniI’m there and there’s some really good coffee shops along there too.”

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Friday, May 27, 2022

27/05/22 - Samantha Jade being interviewed for the website ''NowToLove.com.au''

Exclusive: From crippling anxiety to leaving "The Celebrity Apprentice Australia" "in tears", Samantha Jade isn't afraid to talk about it:

''I was bawling my face off and shaking backstage cause i was like, i can't leave this room.''

Australia first met Samantha Jade when she won "The X Factor Australia" and it wasn't long before she captured the nation's hearts.

Now, she has returned to reality television on a vastly different show, "The Celebrity Apprentice Australia".

The 35-year-old admits to "NowToLove.com.au" that she prefers the singing contest to the "craziness" of Lord Sugar's boardroom:

"I think "The X Factor Australia" is a bit safer for me because singing is my comfort zone", she says.

Luckily, throughout the drama, she had her fiancé Patrick Handlin to support her through filming:

"I would come home in tears or just exhausted and i feel for all the partners when we were filming because it's very long days and it becomes a bubble. You forget there is a world outside the show. Pat would sit and listen to me for the millions of times that i would talk about what is going on. He would say: "There is a world outside of this. We're going to take Banks [the couple's Cavoodle] for a walk tomorrow" or "We're going to go and have dinner just so you can remember there is a world outside of the show", remembers Sam.

Besides the emotional rollercoaster that comes with filming the show, the singer was thrilled the "Cancer Council", her "dream charity," was happy for her to represent them on "The Celebrity Apprentice Australia":

"I was so grateful when they were like: "Yeah, we'd love to be a part of this", because of my story and how it connects with my mum. I lost my person to cancer", says Sam, whose mum Jacqui Gibbs lost her battle to cancer six months after she was diagnosed in 2014.

The mother and daughter were close and when they found out about her cancer, it had already spread around her body, so they couldn't find the primary source, which is why the "Cancer Council" was close to her heart:

"This particular charity doesn't focus on one kind of cancer. It focuses on cancer as a whole and i think that is really important for the people like mum, who didn't know what the main cancer was", she shares.

Sam doesn't go a day without thinking about her mum and she tells "NowToLove.com.au" that she still yearns to call her to get her opinion and support:

 "Obviously, it's so hard losing your mum like mum's the rock! She's the person who holds everything. She's the glue, you know? There is literally something every day that i think: "Oh, i wish i could call my mum and tell her about this or get her opinion on this, you know? That that never goes away. And that I don't reckon that ever gets easier."

The "Sweet Talk" crooner reveals she always had some anxiety, but "it came on very strong" when her mum passed.

It was so crippling that she went through periods where she couldn't leave her house and her chest pains would stop her from being able to do anything.

For a time, she suffered in silence, but when she didn't want to go on medication, Sam found talking about her experience liberating:

"I found for me; it was really helpful to speak about it. At first, i was kind of embarrassed because i was like; "What is happening with me? And i don't know how to deal with this. When i became a bit more open about it, that was when i learned to deal with it because pretty much every single person said; "Oh yeah, i've had a panic attack" or "I've had anxiety. And that actually makes you so selfishly feel so much better because you just don't feel alone", she shares.

Sam recalls a story from her first tour when a panic attack struck before going on stage:

"I couldn't get out of it. It was my tour. I had to do it. I was bawling my face off and shaking backstage because i was like: "I can't leave this room", she tells "NowToLove.com.au".

However, in a moment of solidarity, her band surrounded her with support and shared their own mental health stories:

"My whole band came in and they were really amazing. We all said a prayer, and they came in, and they were talking about their experiences", she says, "I was able to go out and do the show. I truly think that i became a robot. Like, i don't remember it. I don't even know how that happened, but i think, you know, due to second nature."

Sam's fiancé was also a massive support for the star and she fondly remembers Pat coming back from the store with lavender oil, tea, and anything else he could find to help ease her anxiety.

After having to delay their wedding multiple times throughout the pandemic due to Sam's family living in Perth, the couple is finally making it down the aisle very soon:

"At one point, we were like: "Do we just go down to the courthouse?", she jokes.

But after planning a few weddings, Sam says it made them more relaxed about the "little details":

"I think at the beginning you have this idea of it and how perfect it's going to be and all these little things. And then i think at time goes on, you're like: "You know what? That'll be fine."

Wedding bells aren't the only tunes shaking up Sam's year.

She is releasing a new song in a few weeks about finding "silver linings" after the "crazy time we've been through" since 2020 and a double EP is on the way too:

"It's a bit different. It's just packaged a little bit differently. I've kind of split it up into two, i think, at this moment, because i've got one that sounds a little different than the other. And i think i want to separate the two kinds of narratives onto two different ones", she hints.

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