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Una Healy
Name: Una Healy
DOB: 10 October 1981
Birth Place: Thurles, Ireland
Claim to fame: Singer, songwriter, Saturdays star
Star Facts
- Her favourite saying is ‘you know what I mean like’
- She was a championship swimmer as a child
- In a school performance she once played a mouse that lived in a bin
- She is the wild child of the Saturdays
- One of her NY resolutions was not to get papped when drunk
Biography
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Fiery-haired Saturdays star Una Healy was born in Thurles, Ireland on 10 October 1981. As a child she excelled at swimming, going on to become an All-Ireland champion swimmer by the age of nine. But by the time she hit her teens, Una had made her mind up – music was what she really wanted to do.
Picking up her mum’s guitar, she taught herself to play and began to write her own songs. She took a year out after she finished school to try and decide what she wanted to do. She started out a medical secretary then followed her mum’s footsteps by going into nursing. Every man’s dream we can imagine. She eventually switched careers to become a primary school teacher.
Well, as we all know she soon jacked that in as well and finally followed her dreams of being a singing superstar. We are so glad she did.
She started off gigging, guitar in hand, around the pubs and clubs of Ireland. She performed with bands and as a solo act. She released an EP called Sorry in 2006, which she wrote and produced herself. In addition to this, she won the Glinsk song contest in 2004 and 2006. She also represented Ireland as a backing singer in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2007, Una made the move from Ireland to London – and find her fortunes she did, as no sooner had her plane landed, she was called in for an audition for The Saturdays.
Alongside Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White, Mollie King and Rochelle Wiseman, now Humes, she and The Saturdays toured with Girls Aloud, notching up 9 top ten UK singles to date. The band is set to release their new single later in 2012.
In July 2012 she flew to America with the girls to begin filming for a new reality TV show. The programme will be charting their attempt to break the music business across the pond. The girls have had their own television show before in 2010 called, The Saturdays 24/7. They’re old hands at the TV game now.
Una is married to England Rugby player Ben Foden. Their nuptials took place in Ireland in June 2012. In March 2012, she gave birth a baby girl, Aoife Belle.