Yahoo Lifestyle Jack Vidgen: 'I've quit showbiz'
Jack Vidgen. Photo: Getty Images.
He won over judges and the nation with his killer voice and trademark platinum hair and, at just 14, Jack Vidgen took the crown on the fifth season of Australia’s Got Talent.
Signed to Sony Music and releasing his debut album Yes I Am – which peaked at number three in the charts – success seemed certain, but four-and- a-half years on, the teen performer’s attitude towards stardom is very different.
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‘Back then, my goal was to be a music star – now my goal is not to be a star. It turns out, I really don’t enjoy fame... at all,’ Jack tells New Idea.
After winning the hit Channel Seven talent show, Jack’s rise to fame was meteoric.
However, after a 10-month stint trying to crack the US, he made the decision to take himself out of the spotlight and the pressures that come with it.
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Jack Vidgen now aged 19. Photo: Instagram.
‘It’s a very cutthroat business and to be so young, I just wanted some normality,’ Jack says.
Today, the Sydney-born singer has turned his back on performing – for the past 10 months, he has been working in an aged-care facility where he cares for dementia patients.
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Whether he returns to the charts or continues his career in aged care, there’s one thing Jack is certain he’ll be doing – no matter what the future has in store.
‘Just living life to the full – whatever that may look like!’
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