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Sophie Ellis-Bextor: "I'm number one … so why try harder?"

Toby Manning, Select, November 2000

One day you're the ex-singer of a forgotten indie band. The next, you're Number One and embroiled in a tabloid bitch fight with Posh Spice. How did Sophie Ellis-Bextor do that?

Total word count of piece: 2011

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