Alexandra Burke reveals the stern words from Beyonce before X Factor duet

When she was conscionable 19 years old, Alexandra Burke was joined by the 1 and lone Beyonce connected The X Factor stage, but earlier that happened, the prima gave her a stern warning.

The erstwhile Destiny’s Child member, 43, is 1 of music’s astir respected names and 1 galore could lone imagination of performing with, for Alexandra, 39, that imagination became a world successful 2008.

Considered one of the astir iconic duets successful X Factor history, with implicit 2 cardinal YouTube views, the show came astir acknowledgment to amusement creator Simon Cowell.

Alexandra was a portion of Cheryl Cole’s team, and Simon, 65, called successful a favour and organised for the finalist to beryllium joined by Beyonce, portion her competitor, Louis Walsh’s JLS performed with Westlife.

Opening up astir the iconic performance, Alexandra sat down with Capital XTRA Breakfast’s Robert Bruce and Shayna Marie, sharing her backstage chat with the Lemonade singer.

‘What’s moving done my caput is, “How americium I going to support up with this woman?” Because we lone had 1 rehearsal, and it was shocking.’

‘Because she was like, “Don’t sing anymore, due to the fact that you mightiness suffer your voice.” That’s what she told me. And past she said, “I didn’t travel present sing with idiosyncratic that volition lose”.’

‘She goes, “I didn’t alert each this mode to bash that, you’re going to win!”‘ Alexandra laughed.

The then-budding instrumentalist recalled telling Beyonce that she had ‘won successful my heart’ arsenic she had sung with her, but arsenic it turns out, she went connected to triumph the play arsenic well.

A clip of her comments was shared connected Instagram with fans uncovering the speech hilarious.

Nathan Charles Smith wrote: ‘Brilliant 😂’, portion Whitneyveniya said: ‘😂😂 Nah. Beyonce sounding similar each African parent!’

Many different fans shared laughing look emojis, portion immoderate said they ‘loved’ Alexandra’s recounting of the story.

Louis, 71, spoke astir the X Factor star’s triumph erstwhile helium appeared connected Celebrity Big Brother successful March and said Simon ruined his chances of winning by recruiting the euphony mogul.

‘Simon loved Cheryl and what did helium do? publication her Beyonce. That’s what he’s like. That’s wherefore he’s liked,’ helium told his housemates.

Elsewhere successful the interview, the Strictly Come Dancing runner-up spoke astir her caller engagement to footballer Darren Randolph, describing the time arsenic ‘magical’.

The pair, who welcomed their archetypal kid unneurotic successful June 2022 and 2nd successful September 2023, announced their engagement past month.

‘Don’t, it was magical!’ she told the vigor station. ‘The engagement was truthful good thought through. Like, Darren is… I didn’t adjacent cognize however romanticist helium could really beryllium until that day! 

‘The station we’ve enactment up connected Instagram – is ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong. That’s my granddad’s song, and that opus played conscionable earlier it happened. And I thought, ‘If helium doesn’t bash it now, it is ne'er going to hap for america – this is conscionable an anniversary!’ 

‘But erstwhile I walked retired into that terrace and saw him with the babies, ohio my god. Oh my god. I conscionable couldn’t halt crying! I’m getting tearful now, due to the fact that it’s the antheral of my dreams’.’

She continued to accidental she is ‘really blessed’ with her family.

While Alexandra changeable to fame successful the euphony industry, the prima has taken connected acting successful caller years, starring successful a fig of productions, including Mrs Blunderbore successful the London Palladium pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk and Pretty Red Dress, directed by Dionne Edwards.

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