I’ll admit that I don’t know all that much about Sophie Ellis-Bextor. One hit I know she had, she’s stunning looking (at least from the video I’ve seen in a pub somewhere) and wasn’t her Mum on Blue Peter? Still, she’s just gone up in my estimation via this anecdote from Simon Hoggart:

I like these fairs, and
there are certain rules for them. They should be opened by a celebrity,
even if it’s only the mayor or the local MP. We had Sophie
Ellis-Bextor, the singer, who was raised in the area. She was very
sweet. When the presenter asked what had drawn her into music, she
said: "I always wanted to open this fair, and going into music seemed a
good way of doing it."