

"'My first name is Louise – or Louisa, if mum’s angry with me.' And then she was like, 'What’s your middle name, darling? What’s your middle name?'.

And, in fact, before I started singing there, there was a lady who was the one who was booking all the talent, and was like, 'What’s your name, darling?' She was so posh. "And then I started singing at a club called Moonlighting on Greek Street. I don’t need everyone to know that’s my name.' "And she said… 'Well, when you go to your new school, you can ask them to call you by, you know, your middle name.' I was just too lazy.

"What used to happen was, I’d say to my mum, 'Mum, why do I have a middle name if I can’t even use it?' "When I was growing up, I was aware of my middle name, which is Gabriella," she said.
