Nicole Scherzinger major wedding update as she thanks Thom Evans for 'patience'
The entertainer and ex rugby ace will say their vows in her home state of Hawaii 'soon'. Nicole praised Thom for being so understanding amid her efforts to make her musical theatre breakout role a success first
Nicole Scherzinger will tie the knot with Thom Evans when she is finished with her hit Broadway run of Sunset Boulevard.
The entertainer and ex rugby ace will say their vows in her home state of Hawaii 'soon'. Her St James Theatre show's official closing date in July 20. Nicole, favourite to win Best Actress at Sunday night's Tony Awards for Sunset Boulevard, added that Thom has been so 'patient'.She praised her fiancé for being like a 'God' and allowing her to live like a 'hermit' while she has been working on Sunset Boulevard for almost two years. Asked directly 'will you get married soon?', Nicole, 46, replied: 'Yes, we will get married. We're engaged to be married when I'm not working. Thank God he is so patient. We'll get married back home in Hawaii where my family is from.'
The US star remains attracted to Thom both for his looks and talent: 'Doesn't he look like a rugby player from the Gods. He is an amazing actor and a model as well. He's beautiful.'She laughed at suggestions she poached the 40-year-old as young crush from his time performing on a UK reality TV experience, saying: 'It was on Celebrity X Factor, I'm not gross, okay. I met him on that and I saved him so he had to come back. We had actually auditioned them in the summer and we didn't meet face-to-face until the winter. And then after that we've been together ever since.'The ex Pussycat Dolls star praised Thom for being so understanding amid her efforts to make her musical theatre breakout role a success. She added to Sirius XM: 'I live like a hermit, I try not to do much. I still take my meetings and do work that I have to do and wherever they need me.'It's quite a gruelling schedule right now doing this Tony campaign season. So I just tried to rest when I can. I'm not much of a sleeper. I've never been. But I've had to be disciplined to make sure I get six to eight hours, because my voice is my everything, I feel like every performance, I leave my soul and my voice out there on the stage. So I kind of live like a hermit. I don't really do much, and I just drink a lot of water.'Nicole, who won a 2024 Olivier Award for portraying Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, will learn if she has scored the industry peak Tony gong for the Broadway run on Sunday night. Nicole feels her Tony nomination is the ultimate two fingers to disrespectful Hollywood and music industry executives who treated her like a pop flop for over a decade.
Nicole was told applying for stage and screen roles was a 'a waste of time' for over a decade and branded nothing more than a past it girl band star. Nicole, who won a 2024 Olivier Award for portraying Norma Desmond, admitted: 'Like so many people, I was put in a box. it is hard when you feel like your whole career, you've been fighting to be seen and fighting to show what you're truly capable of.'Ten years back after The Dolls, I really wanted to go back to doing musical theater stuff. It's like where my heart whisper is. And there was no path to do that. People weren't even allowing me to be seen for filmed musicals and some live stuff going on. They just wouldn't even consider seeing me, (they were saying) That's going to be a waste of our time. ''I was like, 'they're not taking me seriously. So I got to educate them. 'So I put on a show exactly six years ago in 2019, I put my money up and did all the songs and the roles I always dreamed of playing that nobody would let me. I created my own show and an hour and 20 minutes. I brought it to New York, London, and la and I just put it out there in the universe.'Nicole is grateful that respected producer Jamie Lloyd took a chance on her talent as 'Nobody else would've asked me. He came to me with the idea of playing Norma Desmond. He actually dreamed of me. Isn't that crazy?'
Nicole and the team were huge Olivier Award winners with seven gongs. including best musical revival. It equalled the record for the most prizes for a musical at the ceremony.On Broadway she and co-star Tom Francis are nominated for Tony Awards on June 9. One of the original Desmond Broadway performers, multiple Oscar nominee Glenn Close has publicly praised Nicole's work.'It is validating. It is words of affirmation when what you put out, what you're so passionate about and what you put out is being received with the intention that you put it out and received not from your peers, but even giants before you. It's affirming, it's validating and it's fulfilling because I know that I'm on the right path. I know I'm back where I was born to be.'The 46-year-old is now viewed as one of the most in demand stars in the musical business. She said: "When you see the show, you see the real depths of me as an actor and as a singer and your voice and the range as well. I want to encourage people to keep an open mind and an open heart. You never know where your unexpected dream opportunity is going to come from.'Dolls founder Robin Antin installed Nicole as lead singer in 2003, leading them to huge hits, tours and endorsements until 2010.Nicole enjoyed some solo success, before a 2019 reunion tour and third album comeback fell apart over legal woes and fall outs.
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So I just tried to rest when I can. I'm not much of a sleeper. I've never been. But I've had to be disciplined to make sure I get six to eight hours, because my voice is my everything, I feel like every performance, I leave my soul and my voice out there on the stage. So I kind of live like a hermit. I don't really do much, and I just drink a lot of water.'Nicole, who won a 2024 Olivier Award for portraying Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, will learn if she has scored the industry peak Tony gong for the Broadway run on Sunday night. Nicole feels her Tony nomination is the ultimate two fingers to disrespectful Hollywood and music industry executives who treated her like a pop flop for over a decade. Nicole was told applying for stage and screen roles was a 'a waste of time' for over a decade and branded nothing more than a past it girl band star. 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