Hollie Steel

Hollie Picture Card – signed

Postcard of Bournemouth – signed by Hollie on the front

… and signed by everyone else on the back

Hollie Steel Souvenirs of Bournemouth

Mick Uhl mentioned during yesterday’s chat that Haselmaus sent him a postcard with the autographs of many of the Hollie group at Bournemouth on it.
“The announcement brought immediate interest in seeing the card,” said Mick.  “Someone suggested sending scans to you so that you might show them on your fan site.

“I’ve included two Hollie autographs, one on the face of the postcard and the other on a picture card. Many people haven’t seen Hollie’s autograph and are curious about its appearance … it’s very cute where she dots the i with a heart.”

The reverse of the card has many signatures which Mick has documented for us (see below). Both Jason and Josh Steel signed the card – Josh’s signature is on the left and Jason’s signature is on the right.

Signatures on the back of the postcard

Left Side

Grandad John (Neil) (2 Grand)
Sallie Lax (2 Grand)

Georgi (Velev) (Bulgaria)
Andrew – RAF COSFORD
Helen – Henley-on-Thames

Dormouse Haselmaus Setty (Stelzer)

Right Side

Robert & Joe, London

To Mich from Wendy V
Scott (Boreham) Southampton, England
Sean (Nesbit) edinburgh
David N.(esbit)  ”
Joe C(ook)
Nevin (Thambinayagam)
J(osh) Steel   J(ason) Steel
Nina (Steel)

Vertically down the center of the card

Robert Owen from Blackburn   Best Wishes Robert Owen
Kevin B(ierwirth)

I’d like to say an absolutely HUGE THANK YOU to Mick for sharing these lovely momentoes with us all, and also say wasn’t Haselmaus lovely to send them to him. You Hollie Steel fans are all such nice people!

Isn’t this gallery cool! You can sit back and watch the slideshow – scroll forwards, backwards, or watch in full screen mode. Move your cursor over the photo and arrows will appear to help you.

Many thanks to all of you who have allowed me to use your photos, especially Kevin, Georgi, Nevin, Scott, Haselmaus and David. If you want your photo at Bournemouth adding – let me know!

Here are some quotes from those lucky people who met Hollie and her family at Bournemouth:

Scott said:

It was fantastic. Hollie was the absolute star of the show.

David Nisbet said:

It was amazing! We were in the lounge when Hollie and family joined us. We sat down at a table and just chatted until it was time to go into the function suite. After Hollie’s performance they joined us in the rear bar, and stayed with us all night. After breakfast we played football in the garden,  then Josh played the piano and sang for us.

Robert Owen said:

Hollie was utterly magnificent.  Her performance of Nessun Dorma was a jaw-dropper.  Really I have to say: Watch out Placido Domingo!  Hollie’s ahead of the rest of the field and is hot on your heels with this song.  On Hollie’s performance of “Wishing” I have to remark how well her lower register has developed since the BGT final. So much more power and richness!  Yes, I think Hollie has overtaken Sarah Brightman on this song.

It wasn’t just her singing that was impressive. In spite of all the attention she got, she remained the most gracious, courteous, attentive and patient person it has ever been my privilege to meet.

Wonderful all round! Hollie made it an unforgettable evening.

Georgi Velev has told me that the charity ball in Bournemouth was “a bomb!” and he has kindly sent me a picture of himself with Hollie. Did you go to Bournemouth? Do you have any photos or news you’d like to share? Feel free to leave comments or send an email to:

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Thanks again to Scott for this great quality clip.

Just a note, I have uploaded Nevin’s entire video of Britain’s Got More Talent which includes an interview with Hollie’s Grandma and father, Jason. You may want to check out this post to see the updated entry.

Scott has been kind enough to upload some really good quality videos of Hollie Steel singing “Edelweiss” and “I Could Have Danced All Night” at Bournemouth on July 5th 2009.

Update: The original video of “I Could Have Danced All Night” at Bournemouth has been replaced with Scott’s new high definition one, which he has been kind enough to upload.

His videos are of such a high quality that I have been able to take some nice stills from them to add to this article.

Video 1: Hollie singing “I Could Have Danced All Night”

Video 2: Hollie singing Edelweiss with 2 Grand

Hollie Steel performing at the BIC, Bournemouth on 26th June 2009.