 After nine months traveling across the Caribbean, she left the ship in Los Angeles, spent three months travelling across the US until her visa ran out, and then returned to understudy in the UK concert tour.By November 1999, she had made her first television appearance on "Children in Need" for their special "Pudsey the Musical" and was featured in a jingle for Capital FM.Following this, she appeared as the title role in a Gary Griffin-directed workshop production titled "Helen of Troy" and played the role of Mary in "Merrily We Roll Along" at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.