Now Connie's taking on the world

Nearly 12 months after coming runner-up in Britain's Got Talent, gap-toothed Connie Talbot's popularity is far from waning.

The little eight-year-old from Streetly has just returned from a short tour of Asia while also jetting off to Jamaica to film a video for her cover of the Bob Marley classic Three Little Birds. During this time, the level-headed Blackwood Primary School pupils has been mobbed by thousands of screaming fans and knocked Madonna off the top of the album charts.

She had also been given a tailor-made £2,000 kimono by one of Britney Spears' favourite designers.