Tupele Dorgu as Kelly Crabtree from Coronation Street.

Tupele Dorgu is a British actress. Her mother is Irish and her father is Nigerian. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Kelly Louise Crabtree is a fictional character on the popular UK soap Coronation Street. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ...

Born in Preston in December 1977, she is best known for her role as Kelly Crabtree in ITV1's Coronation Street, which she has played since autumn of 2004. She has also appeared in Loose Women, Casualty and Strictly African Dancing. Dorgu was educated in and around the Preston area, and latterly at Kirkham Grammar School, Preston. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Kelly Louise Crabtree is a fictional character on the popular UK soap Coronation Street. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ... Loose Women is an ITV daytime programme which started in 1999, in which a panel of four female presenters talk about topical issues and interview celebrity guests and have many a time delivered man-baiting remarks, causing much scorn from teletext viewers. ... Casualty is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world[1], first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. ... Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, shown on BBC One based on ballroom dancing. ...

Soapstar Superstar

In January 2007, Dorgu was a contestant in UK celebrity singing reality contest Soapstar Superstar. The show (which is hosted by Zoe Ball) placed Dorgu up against ten other soap opera actors. Each night she had to sing a different song with only 24 hours to learn it. Soapstar Superstar is a reality singing competition which first aired on British television station ITV1 in 2006. ... Categories: People stubs | 1970 births | British television presenters ...

Dorgu now holds the record for the most times in the bottom two. She survived the bottom two for five nights and then finally went out, after making it to the semi-finals. She was even in the bottom two on the first night to her last night.

Songs performed on Soapstar Superstar

• Day 1: Call My Name (Charlotte Church)
• Day 2: Something
• Day 3: Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
• Day 4: That's What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick)
• Day 5: Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
• Day 6: 1.Because of You (Kelly Clarkson)
• 2.Beyonce Medley
• Day 7: 1.Maybe This Time (from Cabaret)
• 2.Stop! (Sam Brown)

Charlotte Churchs second single from her album Tissues & Issues Tracklist Charts Categories: | ... Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed on 21 February 1986) is a Welsh pop singer and television presenter who rose to international fame in childhood as a popular classical singer. ... Something is a song written by George Harrison, originally released on the Beatles last chronological album, Abbey Road by Apple Records. ... Time After Time is the title of several things: Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song), a 1984 pop song written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman Time After Time (1947 song), a jazz standard written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne Time After Time (1979 film), a science fiction film... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Thats What Friends Are For is a song composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, as the end theme for the Ron Howard film Night Shift (1982). ... Marie Dionne Warrick (born December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey), known professionally as Dionne Warwick, is an African-American singer best known for her work with Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters and producers. ... Dont Know Why was the debut single by Blue Note artist Norah Jones from her breakthrough 2002 album Come Away With Me. ... Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and occasional actress. ... There are at least four songs named Because of You: Because of You (1940 song) by Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson, released as a 1951 single by Tony Bennett (and others). ... Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and actress who has enjoyed success in the pop and rock music genres. ... Maybe This Time was a television sitcom which aired on ABC from September 1995 to February 1996. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... Stop! is the name of the hit single from the UK singer Sam Brown, which was later covered by the UK R&B pop star, Jamelia. ... Sam Brown (born October 12th, 1964 in London), daughter of RocknRoll star Joe Brown and singer Vicki Brown, is a British female singer-songwriter best known for her work in the late 1980s, although she has continued to release material since then. ...

External links

• Tupele Dorgu at the Internet Movie Database
• Tupele Dorgu - Coronation Street Official cast page