Although she’s only
24, Martine has
plenty to tell in her autobiography,
Who Does She
Think She Is? The first
instalment, exclusively in Hello!, makes
harrowing but gripping reading. You can
also order a copy of the book
at a special
price through HELLO!
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Martine, who first
found fame in the
hit TV series EastEnders, has already
reinvented herself at an age when most
of us haven’t even decided
what to do
with our lives. Leaving behind her role
as Tiffany,
Britain’s favourite barmaid,
she has transformed herself into a
glamorous pop star
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The singer with her mum, Jenny,
who spent years on the run
from
Martine’s violent father before settling
into a normal family
life with
John McCutcheon, whose name
Martine bears. ‘I was always
really
close to my mum and we’re incredibly
close today,’
says Martine |
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MARTINE McCUTCHEON:
the young star
tells the devastating story of a childhood spent on the run from her violent
father |
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‘My first memory of my Dad is of
him dangling me over a balcony, about 30ft above the ground. I see it in my
mind’s eye, as though it were a photograph. It was a moment of
uncontrollable madness.’
With these words, 24-year-old
actress/singer Martine McCutcheon begins the story of her life, told in her
soon-to-be-released autobiography Who Does She Think She Is?, which is
currently being serialised exclusively in HELLO! In this
week’s edition, she describes her childhood up until the age of nine, how
her violent father refused to accept that his relationship with Martine’s
mother was over, and pursued them from home to home.
A recent photograph of
Martine’s real father
Thomas, known as Keith. Martine hasn’t seen
him since she was nine and insists, ‘I have
no wish to see
him’ |
‘I was only five years old at the
time,’ she recounts in one incident, ‘yet I can honestly say I truly
wanted to kill my father. I sat on the stairs shaking. Then it all went quiet,
deathly quiet. The next thing I heard was this dull thudding. I went downstairs
and saw him hitting my mum’s head on the bathroom sink, over and
over.’
Read the full harrowing account, and our exclusive
interview with the ambitious young star, only in HELLO! |
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