Natalie Appleton
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Natalie Jane Appleton 14 May 1973 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Hampstead, London, England |
| Other names | Natalie Appleton Howlett |
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| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Nicole Appleton (sister) |
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| Years active | 1996–present |
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Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett (born 14 May 1973 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress, who is a member of the girl group All Saints.
Appleton joined All Saints in 1996, and five years later they split up amid group in-fighting. She went on to form a duo with her younger sister Nicole under the name Appleton. Since then, she has reunited to release two more albums with All Saints, in 2006 and 2016.
In 1983, Appleton moved to London to enlist in the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She had a brief cameo in an episode of Grange Hill in 1986.
Appleton's father met Melanie Blatt, with whom Nicole had attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, and heard that Blatt was looking for new members for her girl group. Nicole asked whether her sister could join the group as well. In 1996 both sisters joined Blatt and Shaznay Lewis in forming All Saints. In 2000, Natalie and Nicole appeared in the poorly received film Honest. All Saints split acrimoniously in 2001 amid much foment and rumour. In their five-year career, the group scored a total of five number one singles.
Natalie and Nicole formed a duo Appleton and launched their first single "Fantasy" in September 2002 which features Natalie doing a stage dive. Initially it was to be Nicole doing the stage dive, but she backed out at the last minute, and thus Natalie took her place. The album Everything's Eventual was released in early 2003 and coincided with the documentary Appleton on Appleton which gave an inside look into the life of the sisters. In November 2004, Appleton was a contestant on the fourth series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. While on the show the public voted for her numerous times to take part in bushtucker trials, she was not very successful in completing the challenges and left after the public voted for her to do what would have been a record fifth bushtucker trial.
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