Sophie Ellis-Bextor says her Saltburn cameo sparked a 'bonkers' career transformation

Sophie Ellis-Bextor says she is enjoying a "bonkers" career boost - after her hit song Murder on the Dancefloor featured in thriller Saltburn. The pop star, 45, revealed that since the track was played in the final scene of the film, which was written by Emerald Fennell and starred Rosamund Pike, her popularity has exploded. And she said she has mostly noticed the difference in how teenagers view her.

Speaking to Rachel Jackson on her own Spinning Plates podcast, she said: "Yeah it's bonkers. It's so surreal. We were emailing and you said: 'My teenage daughter's going to be excited.' That is definitely a new thing! This time last year she'd have been like: 'Who the hell is that?'

"I know this too will pass, but it has been quite fun. I feel like, most people have got quite a short attention span, a short memory, I should say, for what you get up to, so you have to appreciate things when you're in the middle of it, because actually everything goes back to normal eventually. You have like a little wave and then it settles back down again, so yeah I'm finding it quite amusing really. I feel like teenagers being interested is a very temporary thing..."

Sophie Ellis-Bextor on stage

Sophie recently performed at the BAFTAS. And while the performance went down a storm, she admitted that she was so nervous beforehand that she actually felt sick. She went on: "It's a confidence trick. If you really stop to think about it, when things get so big like that, your brain almost can't compute it anyway so it might as well be two people, in a way, so when I've got something really pressurised, and I suppose the most recent thing was I performed at the BAFTAs.

"As a singer I don't usually get to see Hollywood stars, so I was very aware I've been allowed in this one time and probably will never be invited back. And just before I sang I thought, I feel sick. A wave of nausea from my toes, all the way up my body. You do have that little fleeting moment where... 'Is this the bit where I do something, where it all goes wrong...? Do I pass out? What actually happens here?'

"Then something kicks in and you think, no, I'm gonna shut up that thing in my brain, it's three minutes, just get it done. I told myself it was a lookalike convention. It was too absurd. Yeah definitely a very intimidating experience. Like anything you do that challenges you, you take something from it, and I've done this and that... the next thing is onwards, always onwards."

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