::: This is a great victory,for everyone that believes in home made music
:: What's home made about it? She did a full length course at a drama school.
: jack ,how is that different form someone having guitar lessons.

She had much the same training Elaine Paige got - just didn't do anything with it for a long time. Voice production, acting, the lot. That's a long step up from a few lessons with a local guy who advertises with a handwritten index card on the supermarket noticeboard.

She's being presented as a naive untutored talent making it against a hostile world, when in fact she had exactly the skills required to do the job the media industry wanted done (basically, to be the next big human-interest story, filling the gap vacated by Jade Goody).