Cornish dance troupe Flava have performed at Stella McCartney's fashion show in Liverpool after being personally requested by the designer.

The world-renowned designer, who is the daughter of international superstar and former Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, watched the group perform on ITV talent contest Britain's Got Talent.

She was so impressed that she contacted their agent to ask the group to perform at her fashion show at LIPA - the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where her father is patron - which was held as part of the Liverpool Art and Culture Festival.

In addition to meeting Stella and Sir Paul, the group from the Fiona Richardson School of Dance were invited to the post-show champagne reception where they mingled with Yoko Ono, the wife of the late John Lennon, as well as a host of celebrities and footballer's wives including the soon-to-be Mrs Wayne Rooney, Coleen McLoughlin.

Mrs Richardson, who runs the dance school and choreographs Flava's routines, said: "The group were blown away by it. At the champagne reception they had loads of people saying they loved their performance. It was quite surreal. Stella McCartney was so sweet - a really nice lady."

It has been a whirlwind week for Flava, who first came to the public's attention when they wowed the Britain's Got Talent judges with their street/hip hop style dancing at their audition in Cardiff.

The group - which includes Truro School sisters Charlotte and Emily Sturges, Redruth resident Jen Harley and former Mullion School pupil Jack Britten - then made it through to the last three in one of five live semi-finals of the televised competition, where they narrowly missed out on a place in last Saturday's final.

Young chorister Andrew Johnston was automatically selected to make the final through the audience vote. Out of seven acts left, Flava received the next highest number of audience votes, together with eight-year-old dancing duo the Cheeky Monkeys.

It was then up to the three judges - Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan - to decide which act to send through as the second finalist.

Piers chose Flava - describing their performance as "the most naturally gifted dance routine we have seen" - with Amanda selecting Cheeky Monkeys.

The casting vote was left to Simon, who after much deliberation sent the Cheeky Monkeys swinging into the final - despite telling Flava: "I think there's something really special about you lot, I really do. What I love about you guys as well is you are incredibly inspirational."

This is by no means the end of Flava however, who have also been booked to appear in a music video for house music duo Phats and Small, as well as being in discussions for three other music videos. They were also interviewed on ITV chat show This Morning, meeting presenters Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford.

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