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Terry Staunton, Uncut, October 1998
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR is bored. Not, as you might expect, with the endless media references to her parentage – she's the daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis – but with the long line of comparisons to female singers she has little or no interest in.
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