After baring her soul to a TV audience of 10 million, Glasgow university’s own pop princess, Kate Navarone, returns to the dim streetlights of campus this week.............

Navarone, (real name Kate Ainscough) failed to win over the Pop Idol judging panel with a nervous rendition of Maria Mckee's "Show me Heaven" the theme from the Tom Cruise movie, “Days of Thunder”."

You didn't perform brilliantly. Show me heaven is a passionate song. I needed a little more passion.
(FEMALE JUDGE)

“ The minute you walked out I could see it was too much for you”
PETE WATERMAN

" It’s not good enough. Honestly Kate, watching that, after 30 seconds, I think the people at home would probably get up and make a cup of tea."
SIMON COWELL

“It was the wrong song, not as popular as I thought it was,” said Navarone, who I was going to do Motown but I went for something popular,. I wanted a big song with a big chorus, something challenging, but going on first I was really thrown After being made to wait over an hour for simon cowell to arrive, Navarone was rewarded with asharp tongue-lashing from Pop Idol’s so called Mr nasty.

“It’s not good enough” said Cowell, “Watching that, after 30 seconds, I think most people at home would probably get up and make a cup of tea.” The distraught, Navarone then burst into tears exclaiming “It’s just so hard”.

Ainscough, in 4th year studying Music and English literature, is well known on campus for her rollerblades,. Having written and recorded her debut album Starover Blue, which she describes as ‘funky pop’.Last year, she launched a campus-wide search for a backing band, holding auditions at the QMU. After 12 months battling for recognition in Glasgow’s less glamorous nightspots, Ainscough decided to go for the fast track television, blagging her way into the Pop Idol auditions in Glasgow. Taking the stage name Navrone, which she found in the hortse racing pages of a newspaper. After her swiftly progress through the early rounds, Ainscough fell at the final furlong as the judges preferring the smiley,

“I tried to promote my musicianship as an interesting twist, but it actually turned out they didn’t give a shit about all the things I'd done. they wanted someone who walks in wide eyed and excited, like it’s a dream to them, they weren't interested in someone who plays the piano, Simon cowell was a twat to me. Even though what he said to me,was edited down, a lot of people were like: I can't believe how harsh he was to you,

During the week of rehearsals, Ainscough enjoyed camaraderie with her fellow pop wannabes but was disappointed by the favouritism shown by the show’s producers. “They supposedly set up your media coverage, which for me ended up being one boring interview with a very minor paper in Barrow. Later, I found out that Kieran (who came third in the same heat as Navarone) had been given 8 interviews.”

Despite having her fingernails burned, Navarone remains determined to reach the giddy heights of pop stardom, and will now return to the hard graft of making it in the Glasgow scene, I’m back to putting posters up in urinals,” sighed Ainscough, “After the pop iodol thing I thought, I'm not what they're after I wanna be palying, singing, writing.I’d like to show it qorks in Glasgow or Edinburgh, then if it works on a local stage in can work nationally. Describing herself as “ambitious, driven and idealistic”, Ainscough remains determined to earn recognition for her music and then go onto even

"It sounds really cheesy but I just want to make the most out of every drop that life's got to offer and I realkly wanna get as far as I want. I wanna be in aposition where I'm in a performer, in areally creative posoition, and then if I do start getting a media profile I can use that to do really amzing things. I'm a big environmental bunny. I wanna make big waves with recycling and things. My family call me swampy., Like I used to work in a marine sanctuary on my year out and if I've got a media profile in five years time I can do so much more."