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Growing Up & Going Viral with Sophia Grace

Growing Up & Going Viral with Sophia Grace

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The one and only Ms Sophia Grace is almost all grown up and ready to take over the world! The viral star pays a visit to the YH Studio to explain how her first YouTube video came about and how that led to her appearances on "Ellen" and meeting superstars like Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry! She also reveals what other projects she has in the works and what the future holds for her! Be sure to check out our clip with Sophia on musical.ly!

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Sophia Grace

My sister is two weeks older than Rosie's brother. I have like a makeup collection. I really like makeup. She always gets my brushes and she's just like wiping them around our hotel rooms that we stay in here. And I'm like, that's really unhygienic. Now I've got to put that on my face and it's been all over the hotel room floor. Like, I don't know who stayed in that room before.

Young Hollywood

Hey guys, it's Tracy in the Young Hollywood Studio and I am sitting with the one and only Sophia Grace. Which by the way, I am so excited to meet you because I've been following you since you were first on Ellen, which was How old were you?

Sophia Grace

I was eight and now I'm 12.

Young Hollywood

Almost almost a teenager, which is really exciting. I can't believe you're almost a teenager. That is Wait, when's your birthday?

Sophia Grace

Well, my actual birthday is on a Monday, which is really annoying because everyone will be at school. Um, but

Young Hollywood

That's fun though, right? Because

Sophia Grace

Yeah, I can yeah. They just will celebrate. Yeah. But then on the Saturday that week, I'm going to go out shopping with my friends and stuff. I'm not actually having a big party because I'm a bit old for that now. But yeah, that's what I'm doing.

Young Hollywood

Are you ever too old to have a big party, though? I mean, like with a bouncy house.

Sophia Grace

I don't really need that. But I think I'll have a few family over. But shopping, I mean, that

Young Hollywood

Yeah, shopping is the best. Is that one of your favorite things to do?

Sophia Grace

Yeah. I'll go to Oxford Street in London.

Young Hollywood

Can we come? Can we come to We're gonna we're gonna have to come and fly to London and just do a whole Young Hollywood birthday segment with you. That would be amazing. But so much has happened. You're you're you're 12 now. And what was, I mean, when you think back to the first time you were on Ellen, you did the viral video with Nicki Minaj, Super Bass. Did you always know you wanted to be a singer and a rapper and an actress and everything that you are?

Sophia Grace

I no, I didn't really. I just used to kind of sing around the house. My parents didn't really take any notice. They probably thought I was kind of annoying. Um, but yeah, and then I think they must have taken notice. Well my my family always used to say, oh, you should put her like to my mom and dad, you should put her on YouTube because if you're not, we're going to. So my dad thought, oh, we better put her on there then otherwise they're going to. And so me and my cousin just it was playing one day like around my house and we just they just filmed us like not playing, but filmed us like me singing and my cousin dancing.

Young Hollywood

So you and Rosie and you both went on the show and you loved pink tutus and tiaras. That was your

Sophia Grace

We did.

Young Hollywood

Do you still love pink tutus and tiaras?

Sophia Grace

No, I don't. I mean, I don't hate them, but I wouldn't wear them. I think I'm a bit old for that now. But I I prefer more like outfits like what I'm wearing now. And I love mint green.

Young Hollywood

I love your top.

Sophia Grace

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Okay, which by the way, I was like, I saw that your new favorite color was mint green.

Sophia Grace

Yeah, yeah. I used to love pink. I mean, I still like it now, but I kind of like more mint green colors.

Young Hollywood

I was like, I have to I have to find something mint green just for you.

Sophia Grace

Most of my bedroom is mint green as well. And somehow. So, yeah.

Young Hollywood

So you do a lot of YouTube videos now and I saw that you did a room tour.

Sophia Grace

Yeah, I did a room tour. People have been asking me to do a house tour, so hopefully I'll do one of them soon.

Young Hollywood

So describe your Your room was actually so cute.

Sophia Grace

My room was most of my fans think like your rooms must be huge, but it's actually not that big. It's just average. Um, and I just have like my bed, my wardrobe, or my closet. Um, my closet, my TV and it's just like a normal room, but I love mint green, so I have this mint green like throw over my bed and I have I love emojis and so I have the emoji poop pillow on my bed.

Young Hollywood

I was gonna ask you your whole room was white, mint green and pink. And then all of a sudden you look at your bed and you have the poop emoji pillow. I love that. Where did that you just like love that emoji?

Sophia Grace

I just like I say it's your best friend. It is. It's my only friend. I have um, I've seen like on YouTube other people's room tours and they have that pillow and so I was like, I have to get it. So I ordered it off eBay and then um, and then it came in the post and I went to the post office to pick it up. And the man was like, what is this? And I was like, not for you to know. And so I just took it home and I opened it up and I was like, my new best friend and I put it on my bed.

Young Hollywood

Do you actually sleep on it? Or is it just more of a decoration?

Sophia Grace

Uh, it's just like more of a decoration, so I don't actually sleep with it. Um, and then yeah, that would probably be a little weird.

Young Hollywood

So going back to Ellen, what was you got to interview a lot of celebrities.

Sophia Grace

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

You did a tea time segment and I watched your Katy Perry one. That was one of my favorites. That was that was really good. I actually keep like thinking back, who was the first celebrity I ever met?

Young Hollywood

Yeah, who was the first

Sophia Grace

I think it was Ellen. It was Ellen. Then then Nicki Minaj, then the probably next person that was famous was probably like Katy Perry because after the Ellen show, we did the AMA, me and my cousin, and the first person we met there was probably Katy Perry. So like the top three first people we met.

Young Hollywood

Were you nervous just to talk to them or I think I was so young. I don't think you get nervous though, do you?

Sophia Grace

No. Well, I I didn't used to. I mean, as I've got older, I've got more aware that I'm actually on TV and like, like when I'm young, I didn't really realize like what was going on. I was just excited to be there.

Young Hollywood

You were always very excited. And it was so cute. I was like crazy.

Sophia Grace

I'm not like that anyway. Well, I'm I'm still excited to like be here and um, meet people and be in America, but I'm not as crazy as I used to be. It used to be like really excited.

Young Hollywood

Was there anyone like, who was the I mean, was it Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, who were you so excited to meet?

Sophia Grace

Who I don't I don't really know. I love meeting like all like I just forget sometimes about celebrities and then we meet them and I'm like, oh, yeah, I I really like you actually.

Young Hollywood

Is there someone that you really want to meet that you haven't met yet? That you'd love to interview?

Sophia Grace

I'd love to meet Beyoncé. Like, I haven't met her yet and she's one of the people I want to meet the most.

Young Hollywood

That Beyoncé, we have to make it happen. Tell us something about Ellen because everybody loves Ellen too. Is there something that that's really funny about her that maybe people don't know or any funny stories when you were on the Ellen show?

Sophia Grace

I don't we actually I didn't really get to see her that much. Like, I go, so when we get to the actual Ellen show, we just like in our dressing room hanging around and I used to just like, we used to stay at the show ages, like after we'd been on the show and just like play around and prank people and do fun stuff. It was really fun. And they actually made a toy box for me and my cousin when we was like younger and they filled it with loads of toys. And ever since I've been back.

Young Hollywood

They gave you a lot of toys on that show, I think. You got a lot of cool gifts.

Sophia Grace

We we got a lot of gifts, like a lot. And then we did get a cotton candy machine once, but we didn't get to We just didn't we didn't get it. Like, we didn't get to take it home. And I think our parents didn't want us to take it home.

Young Hollywood

You have been making a lot of music too. You've got music videos. What was that experience like actually working on a music video? Because

Sophia Grace

It was like it was really good. I've done three music videos now. I I love making music videos. It's better than like going to the studio. I mean, going to the studio is fun and all that, but it can be a bit boring sometimes. But the best part about making music is actually filming the video.

Young Hollywood

And then you also have a show that you're doing on YouTube, right? Called Pop Star Treats.

Sophia Grace

Pop Star Treats, which is such a cute idea.

Young Hollywood

You have to check it out because you did the first one you did was Uptown Funk. Uptown Fudge. Uptown Fudge. Fudge like. So how did you come up with the idea to actually make fudge and then you had like a little marshmallow as a hat?

Sophia Grace

Well, it wasn't my idea. Secret. It wasn't my idea. Um, but um, we've been like asking like me and who the people that are making the show, um, what we're doing is the first show we did, we told people to comment down below their ideas. And so people have been saying like do an Ariana Grande themed cake or something. And so I'm working on some ideas, but I'm not like good at thinking it so hard.

Young Hollywood

Do you like cooking? Is that another hobby of yours?

Sophia Grace

I actually love cooking. I make cakes all the time at home, either with my nan or on my own.

Young Hollywood

Tell about your little sister because you were so when you first heard that your parents were you and Rosie both so excited. Your moms were pregnant at the same time.

Sophia Grace

Yeah, they kind of like planned it. Um, what what happened is my sister is two weeks older than Rosie's brother. So it's so cool. Like my sister was born May 20th and Romeo, Rosie's cousin, Rosie's brother, my cousin, was born on June 3rd. So they're like really close in age, so they'll probably go to the same school.

Young Hollywood

And then you both you wanted a little sister and she wanted a little brother. And then it just worked out. It just worked perfectly. Like that. How does that happen? Right?

Sophia Grace

I know, it was amazing. Romeo's so cute, so is Belle. But she actually she gets some my nerves sometimes. I have like a makeup collection. I really like makeup. She always gets my brushes and she's just like wiping them around our hotel rooms that we stay in here. And I'm like, that's really unhygienic. Now I've got to put that on my face and it's been all over the hotel room floor. Like, I don't know who stayed in that room before. So that's she can be annoying in that way, but other than that, she's quite cute.

Young Hollywood

Is she gonna be in any more of your your YouTube videos?

Sophia Grace

She probably will. Even if she's not meant to be in it, she'll probably be in the background. You'll probably hear her or she'll be in the background doing something like drawing on the floor. Like she did in my last video.

Young Hollywood

So I want to know what you are loving right now because everybody wants to, you know, like you love fashion, you love music. We're both We were talking about we're kind of like similar. We both have white pants on.

Sophia Grace

I don't really wear jeans that much. I love my Adidas Superstars very much. They're my favorite. Um, and I usually wear like

Young Hollywood

What do you love for spring? Like

Sophia Grace

For spring, like maybe some shorts and nice crop top, not like a proper crop top, but like a flowy nice top. Um, and sandals. Yeah, I don't really know. I don't really wear shoes that much because I'm always in my house. That's. Oh, and I'm always in my house. That's what it looks like, right? Just

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Do you love any new apps? We were talking earlier actually. That we both like musically.

Sophia Grace

I love musically. I don't have like a proper musically like for all my fans to see, but I have like a private one that no one knows about, but my friends see and it was on my phone that I have lost now, so I don't have it anymore. But I love musically. Like, it's literally my favorite app. I like me I like first of all, Snapchat the best. Then musically, then Instagram.

Young Hollywood

Will you make a musically with me?

Sophia Grace

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

When we're done, we're gonna do it to your song actually.

Sophia Grace

Okay. I've never done that on the app. I've never done it to my song.

Young Hollywood

Okay. So we're gonna we're gonna do that and you have to follow us at Young Hollywood to watch the musically with Sophie Grace. I love you, Monica. So you're 12. What do you see yourself doing in the future? Do you wanna still sing, do you want to rap, do you want to act?

Sophia Grace

I definitely like want to sing when I'm older. Hopefully have like a few songs out. I don't want to be like a really big pop star because I want to kind of have a normal life as well. But I could be like a little bit famous with a few songs and like that. Just like that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't really know. Yeah, I definitely want to be a singer. And I also love at the moment, um, I love Lush, the bath bomb store. Is that only in England or is that

Young Hollywood

No, it's in America as well.

Sophia Grace

Oh. And it just sells like these little things for your bath that fizz. It's so cool. I have like a huge Lush collection at home and it's Easter themed and I haven't even got to use them yet.

Young Hollywood

Oh, thank you so much for coming in. It was so nice chatting. It was so nice talking. You'll be seeing a lot of Sophie Grace. This fall personality is not going anywhere. And and we're going to make our musically now. Yes. We kind of have to go. Thanks for watching.

Sophia Grace

Oh, thank you. Bye.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Sophia Grace

    Featured guest and viral star

  • Tracy

    Interviewer from Young Hollywood

  • Rosie

    Sophia Grace's cousin and original viral video partner

  • Nicki Minaj

    Met by Sophia Grace after viral video

  • Katy Perry

    Met by Sophia Grace after Ellen Show

  • Ellen DeGeneres

    Sophia Grace appeared on her show multiple times

  • Beyoncé

    Celebrity Sophia Grace wants to meet

  • Ariana Grande

    Mentioned as a theme for Pop Star Treats

  • Belle

    Sophia Grace's younger sister

  • Romeo

    Rosie's younger brother

FAQ

How old was Sophia Grace when she first appeared on Ellen?+
Sophia Grace was eight years old when she first appeared on The Ellen Show, and she is 12 at the time of this interview.
What is Sophia Grace's favorite color now?+
Sophia Grace's favorite color is mint green, and she has many mint green items in her bedroom.
What is Sophia Grace's YouTube show called?+
Sophia Grace has a YouTube show called "Pop Star Treats" where she makes themed desserts, like Uptown Fudge.
Which celebrity does Sophia Grace want to meet most?+
Sophia Grace expressed a strong desire to meet Beyoncé, as she hasn't met her yet.
What are Sophia Grace's favorite apps?+
Sophia Grace's favorite apps are Snapchat, followed by Musically (now TikTok), and then Instagram.
Does Sophia Grace want to be a big pop star?+
Sophia Grace wants to sing and have a few songs out, but she doesn't want to be a 'really big' pop star because she also desires a normal life.
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