[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by yousoboo!

1. Since when does academic achievement determine how successful a person is? There are plenty of high profile people who failed at school but want on to build vast empires. Alan Sugar and Simon Cowell are 2 prime examples. I got expelled from school with 2 GCSE's but am in a good job with good career prospects.

2. Sov can't help where she was brought up. She could of taken the easy route and become a young teenage mum living on benefits but she has done more in her 24 year life than quite a few people of her age.

3. You think that Jay Z would of signed her to Def Jam if she had no talent? Sov's problem was that she didn't conform/play the American music industry game and that's where she made her mistake. Something she has been pretty open about.

holding up Simon Cowell as a role model for academic failure does her (or you) no favours