Pixie Lott

Victoria Louise “Pixie” Lott is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut single, “Mama Do”, was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single, “Boys and Girls”, also topped the UK Singles Chart in September 2009. On September 13, 2019 she played her first-ever gig in the US at The Grove in West Hollywood.

She made her film debut in the 2010 movie Fred: The Movie, which was based on a real-life YouTube channel created by Lucas Cruikshank.

Lott was born several months premature, and her mother gave her the nickname Pixie because she was “such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy”. She started singing in her church school, and when she was five she attended the Italia Conti Associates Saturday school in Chislehurst. She went on to attend the main school – Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts – at 11, where she was awarded a scholarship.

During her time as a student at the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts, she appeared in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, Pixie performed in BBC One’s Celebrate the Sound of Music in 2005, aged 14, as Louisa von Trapp. Despite missing school time because she was recording her album, Lott says she received straight ‘A’ grades in her GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education).

In FHM‘s 100 Sexiest Women list, she was voted No. 45 in 2010, No. 31 in 2011, No. 12 in 2012 and No. 7 in 2013.