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Anxious wait as Sarah wins over Oliver! Judges.


FANS of I'd Do Anything contestant Sarah Lark faced a nail-biting wait to learn their girl was safely through to next week's show.

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 with her first live TV performance on Saturday.

But Sarah was the last contestant to learn she was through - narrowly avoiding a tense sing-off to book her place in next Saturday's programme.

She tearfully said: "Thank you, thank you!" as her ecstatic family - mum Bev, 47, dad Billy, 54, and brother David, who turned 11 on Friday - celebrated wearing T-shirts bearing Sarah's name and picture.

Millions of viewers saw former Cardiff High School Cardiff High School is a comprehensive school in the Cyncoed/Lakeside area of the city of Cardiff in South Wales. Cardiff High School stands in grounds some two miles from the city centre in the Cyncoed/Lakeside district, serving a neighbourhood of privately-owned houses.  pupil Sarah, from Roath, battle it out with the 11 other hopefuls vying for the role of Nancy in an Andrew Lloyd Webber-backed West End production of Oliver!

Wearing a sky blue dress, she performed an emotional version of Oleta Adams' Get Here.

Speaking on the live show hosted by GrahamNorton, the 25-year-old said: "To be a leading lady in a West End show is everything I have ever wanted.

"My fear will always be how young I look. When I was 18 I was playing a 12-year-old in Witches of Eastwick.

"This is the first time I've got anywhere near a character without a baby face. Forget the baby face, think about Sarah Lark the woman!"

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PLEASED Sarah Lark is through to the next round of I'd Do Anything. Left, Sarah's mum and dad and her brother David were there to support her.
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Publication:South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Date:Mar 31, 2008
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