collins, charlotte michelle

[CHARLOTTE MICHELLE COLLINS]

c h a s e - t h e - s t a r s --

you should know by now that my name is charlotte michelle collins, but please call me lottie. i like them much better! although my fake i.d. says differently, i'm really seventeen years old. cool, huh? i guess i could be classified as a celebrity, but i prefer not to be labeled. i grew up in the beautiful city of boca raton . fl, but i certainly like this town much more! want to know how i act? three words can tell you that: i'm positive, realistic, and romantic. yeah, i'm pretty amazing, aren't i? some say i look just like ariana grande, though i can't see it! jealous? i know. just look at how glamorous my life really is:


Charlotte Michelle Collins was born on the 30th of September to two very happy parents. Her mother, Susan, was a lawyer and her father, Steven, was a film director. Charlotte was spoilt quite considerably but it didn’t create a monster of a child, no, this little girl was picture perfect. Charlotte wasn’t the first child of these two parents, nor was she the second. Before Charlotte was born there was her oldest brother Lewis Collins, he was a good boy too but he was quiet, he grew up to live mainly in the shadows and is often seen as being the quietest of the Collins bunch. Charlotte also has a twin brother called Evan who is known for his theatre just like his slightly younger sister. The Collins’ were a pretty celeb family with a well known lawyer and a famous film director and then three children all with an interest in the arts. Charlotte and Evan were twins but people never believed them when they told them that because they didn’t really look very similar. The two twins were very close though always sticking with each other and attending many dance, drama and vocal classes together.

It was when Charlotte was eight that she started attending arts school and soon after realised it was the best place for her to be. Her parents were positive it was too early for her to go an arts school but after numerous tantrums and shows of her brilliant work she convinced them that she deserved her place there and after her audition she was swiftly accepted to the new york school of the arts and this uprooted the entire family. Evan continued to attend public school by choice but both auditioned for broadway shows and had vocal coaches. Don’t forget Lewis though, he was also in broadway shows but also thinking about the idea from a director side, as I said they were an artistic family. When Charlotte was ten she met Lucy, who was soon to become her closest friends. They were made room-mates but didn’t seem to click very quickly, both were outspoken but Lucy was a lot more negative that Charlotte. The two soon realised that their differences would be what would make them close though and they started doing everything together, they were attached at the hip.

At 13 came Charlotte’s first major broadway debut in the play thirteen in which all of the cast members were kids. She was in along with Lucy and her twin brother Evan, for Charlotte it was the best thing ever, she was experiencing something so wonderful with her friends and her family, she couldn’t have dreamt it better. Thirteen was the big break Charlotte needed to catapult her into fame. Soon after the show was taken off broadway Charlotte got numerous offers to be on numerous tv shows and she landed herself a pretty big one. At the age of fourteen Charlotte was playing the lead role on an abc family series about an arts school, it was called Cat and I and the show was set to be a huge success. With Charlotte’s voice taking over tvs everywhere and being broadcast over the computer to other continents her name began to be known. People queued up for hours to have their photo taken with the now red-head and pleaded her to tweet them a reply.

To Charlotte being famous wasn’t about the fame, it was getting paid to do what she adored to do and having people look up to her for it too. Charlotte loved to be a role model and she did everything she could to make sure she was a good one. She didn’t want to be a ‘miley cyrus’ or a ‘britney spears’ to her it really mattered whether parents deemed her as a good role model, she knew what being a kid was like, she knew that there was always that one person that you believed was perfect, that you wanted to mimic and although Charlotte knew she wasn’t perfect she was going to do everything she could to be as close as she could get. The filming for her show took place in Los Angeles and so the Collins’ family uprooted for their only girl once more. Charlotte felt bad for dragging her family around with her but they didn’t mind, it was perfect for the whole family. The children could jump into the arts along with their father and her mother could fight for celebrities with more money than sense. It took Charlotte a while to get used to the difference between the city that never sleeps and the all round sunshine but now she is loving California. Just remember, this girl may seem like sugar and spice and all things nice but hurt her and you’ll realise that she really does care.

jess , seventeen , greenwich mean time .

Evie was upset, she missed the simplicity of New York, the island was just too pretentious. She was fed up of being the poor little red-headed girl that everyone stood on to get where they wanted. She hated being labelled and she hated how blind everyone was. She wanted real friends, people she was positive she was only going to find back in New York. No-one here seemed to have any depth, beauty may only be skin deep but these people only seemed to be skin deep too. Evie hated that all people cared about was how much money you made and how high up your family were on the social scale. Evie had dreams, something that she hoped would help her survive this place. She had found a few people who had seemed to turn over a new leaf but she just wasn’t sure, Evie was usually pretty good at trusting people but she just found it so much harder in Isle de Paix. Evie wasn’t a big fan of school either, when she was in 13 she got to be tutored with the rest of the class and she adored it, and before that it was all fun and games at NYAA. She missed classes that were entirely focused around improvisation or mime. She also missed make-up class, she was actually pretty good at stage and special-effects make up because she had taken it as an extra class even though she was at the school for acting, singing and dancing. Evie had pretty much taken up ever class she could because she was so positive the theatre was where she wanted to be. Being on the island made her even more sure, she didn’t want to live a normal life like everyone else that was there, she wanted to be unique, she wanted to perform every day to a fully packed broadway or west end audience, that would just be unbelievable.

At that moment the girl sat crossed legged on the floor near the lake with her guitar to the side of her. Evie took her guitar most places with her because it was her way of portraying the emotions that she had and she adored it for that. She thought slowly trying to decide what song to sing and then one that struck her was a Christmas related song but she knew that it wouldn’t sound ridiculous if people heard her singing it. She began the song ‘my grown up Christmas list’ and kept it quite soft and mellow. The words meant so much to the girl even though she hadn’t written them. The chorus was just so meaningful and she felt that everyone could relate to it.
“No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal the heart
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end oh,
This is my grown up Christmas list”
She willed for those words to be true, she just wished that santa did exist and could do all those things which she sung about in the song. Evie was a softy but she would happily admit that. The song was one of the many that Evie wished she had written, it was just so true and so passionate that she longed to be able to claim it as her own but it wasn’t so she couldn’t say it was. Evie had numerous favourite artists; she could never pick just one. She hated being asked that question, she hated being told that she had to just choose one, she had so many people that she looked up to and she had made it her quest to meet as many of them as she could. A few had come to see thirteen and the celebrities always came down and met the cast after the show so that had made Evie incredibly happy.

Evie wasn’t really sure why she was at the lake but it had felt like a good place to go to just set herself free. She wanted to think about other things than the drama of the island and why people were the way they were. She wanted to get out of her house where her brothers were just playing xbox all the time, as the girl of the house she could never claim the TV. Evie did love her life, she knew that a lot of people had it a lot worse it was just that the superficialness of the area was getting to her and it was all making her want to just go home. She had her castmates in New York, they were the ones that shared her passion and didn’t care about money. They did things for fun, for love, rather than to just make some money so they could walk around in the latest fashions. Evie didn’t care about the price of clothes that she wore as long as she liked them and as long as she was comfortable in them, to her that was all that really mattered and she was happy to just have stuff from cheaper shops that looked just the same. Evie wasn’t what people would call someone that craved/needed fame. Fame came part and package of her dream and she understood that and so that made her include fame in her wish to succeed. It was hard to be known in the acting industry without being ‘famous’ so Evie knew that one day she’d have to jump straight into the spotlight.