Who Is Katherine Jenkins? Seven Things You Didn't Know About The DWTS Contestant
Feb. 28 2012, Published 7:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
There’s a sexy soprano coming to a TV screen near you, and we ain’t talking about Jaime Lynn Siegler.
Rather, it’s Katherine Jenkins, the 31-year-old Welsh-born opera singer who we learned Tuesday is one of the new competitors on the next season of Dancing with the Stars, as the high-pitched hottie will take to the floor with Mark Ballas.
So before you have a chance to ask “Who is she?” Breaking Celebrity News’s got seven things you may not know about the beautiful and talented Jenkins.
7. She’s a really big deal in the opera world: The mezzo-soprano sold the most opera albums in the UK eight years ago, receiving a then-record offer from Universal for a six-record pact worth more than $1.5 million. To date in her career, Jenkins has to her name, seven studio albums -- six of which topped the UK classical charts -- two compilations and 11 singles.
6. She’s tried marijuana -- and did inhale! Katherine