{"id":816843,"date":"2026-10-28T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816843\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:26:09","slug":"babydoll-singer-jamie-miller-says-his-dreams-have-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816843\/","title":{"rendered":"Babydoll singer Jamie Miller says his &#8216;dreams have come true&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie Miller says &#8220;nothing feels normal&#8221; anymore but he is trying to &#8220;live in the moment&#8221; as he comes to terms with his history-making song Babydoll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week the 29-year-old became the first Welsh artist to top the UK singles chart in 15 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq5yndllj8d8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the viral TikTok hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer, who is originally from Pontprennau in Cardiff, said his dreams had &#8220;come true&#8221; and life would &#8220;never be the same again&#8221; after a challenging few years in which he even had to give up on music for a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller said the last year had been &#8220;insane&#8221; as he has gone from watching Gavin and Stacey with his parents to getting messages on his social media from the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller made history when he became the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6r7ylzp148eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> first Welsh artist to top the singles chart <\/a>since Sian Evans&#8217; feature on DJ Fresh&#8217;s Louder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is also the first solo male Welsh artist in 41 years to top the singles chart, after Shakin&#8217; Stevens&#8217; 1985 timeless festive hit, Merry Christmas Everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t feel real. To actually live my dreams the way that it&#8217;s coming about right now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The song found fame on TikTok when actress Jennifer Love Hewitt posted videos featuring the track. But Miller said the &#8220;genuineness&#8221; of the track also made it stand out as his first song since his hiatus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I went through a really, really hard few years  in my personal life, and I took two years off music,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a genuineness to how I sound in the song. The world&#8217;s in a little bit of a dark place right now so maybe that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s made people come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Miller says &#8220;nothing feels normal&#8221; anymore but he is trying to &#8220;live in the moment&#8221; as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}