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Pauline Bennett, who also goes by the stage name of Jazzi P, is a British DJ, dance teacher and rapper from
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. She had a No. 6 hit as a featured artist on
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's 1991 song " Shocked", and also participated in '' Big Brother: Power Trip'' in 2014.


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Music

Bennett has taught dance since the age of 11 creating a
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performing group at aged 14. Her rap career began with her dance group The Brutal Ladies in 1984 and was the first female hip hop/jazz DJ on a local pirate radio station, playing local clubs until she entered the DMC Rap Championships in 1988 and was spotted by Les Adams a.k.a. L.A. Mix. In 1989, she featured on
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's UK No. 25 hit " Get Loose", which became a hit after L.A. Mix had been diagnosed by
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as being "unlikely to score another hit" after their UK #6 hit "Check This Out". The following year, she had a solo hit with "
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", which charted at No. 51 on the
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. In 1991, Jazzi rapped on the DNA song "
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", which sampled
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's " Rebel Rebel" and charted at No. 42 on the same chart. Around the same time, DNA remixed
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's " Shocked" and added a rap part written and performed by Jazzi. The DNA Remix of the song was then released as a single (it was not originally planned for release) and charted at No. 6 on the
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, becoming Minogue's thirteenth consecutive top ten hit. Jazzi also performed the track on ''
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''. Jazzi told Minogue that previously she thought the singer's music was "shit". What they failed to report was the remainder of the comment which was "...but since I've seen and heard you perform live, hip hop or no hip hop cred, I would pay to see you any day!". Many house tracks have used Jazzi's
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s for remixes and in 1994 Chris & James sampled "Feel the Rhythm" for their UK No. 74 hit "Calm Down (Bass Keeps Pumpin')". In 1991 after buying herself out of her record deal, she returned to teaching dance and building Wolverhampton's first community dance studio, Sweatbox.


2014: ''Big Brother''

Bennett participated in the fifteenth series of '' Big Brother UK'', entering on Day 1 on 5 June 2014; she declared herself "an opinionated joker" and it was mis-stated that she had phobias of sea creatures and red meat. Her motto is "if it swims or flies I'll eat it, but if it goes clip clop, I'll think twice" She also noted that if she was not the first one to be evicted, she would be celebrating her fiftieth birthday in the house. She became the first housemate to be voted 'Power' housemate, enabling her to influence events; she was immediately asked to select one housemate for a treat and one for a punishment. She selected Mark for the treat – a £5,000 cash bonus – and selected Matthew for a punishment because she disagreed with some remarks he made about people with little intelligence. Matthew's punishment was to be excluded from the house for the first night. The next day, Bennett was asked to send a single housemate straight through to the final; she selected Helen. On Day 4, she was asked to hand out a Big Brother 'killer nomination', which meant that the selected housemate would automatically face eviction every week for the whole time they were in the house. She selected Jale on the grounds that she did not like her ways feeling that she was selfish and not a team player. Upon selecting her killer nomination, Bennett's tenure as Power housemate expired and fellow housemate Chris was selected; he nominated Pauline for the next eviction. A few days later, she had to be rushed to hospital to be treated for a burn. She became the second housemate to be evicted on Day 16 (with 79.4% of the public vote).


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Archived version of StarNow profile
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