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Pharrell Williams and Alesha Dixon were rumored to be an item in 2004, but she said he was too short to date.
In 2004, Dixon went to feature in the N.E.R.D music video "She Wants to Move". In the video, she is shown dancing on a podium while the band circle her. It was also rumored that she was dating Pharrell Williams around the time of the video.
20 June 2015
It also just so happened to be the year that Pharrell and his bandmates were looking to make a music video for their track 'She Wants To Move', and they'd set their sights on none other than Alesha Dixon.
"I remember it like it was yesterday. I even remember when I got the phone call to do the video. I was lying in bed watching Friends and my PR guy called me at the time and he said, 'Pharrell would like you to be in his video.' I was like 'No, he doesn't!' I thought it was a complete joke.
"Then I had this sudden panic because I thought 'I wanna do it', but then I said 'Can you send me the video treatment first?' I was panicking because I've seen some of Pharrell's videos in the past and he's up and close with the girls and I thought, 'If it's anything like that, I'm not doing it.' I had a boyfriend at the time, and even still that wouldn't have been my style.
"When I read the treatment and it said we just want you to dance I was like, 'Yes! I'm doing it!' I think I literally flew to LA the next day or the day after. I got to work with an amazing choreographer called Hi-Hat [and] Dave Meyers, who directed it, was brilliant. The boys made me feel welcome - I was absolutely cacking my pants.
"I was so nervous because I'd never really done anything like that before, but it was a great experience for me. It was random but at the time it created quite a nice buzz, quite a nice vibe. It's one of those videos that's become quite iconic and people still talk about the video today, so it's great for me.
"It was a one-day shoot. We started out in the desert in the morning doing the motorbike scene and then we went into the studios. I was so nervous on the day of the video that I needed an oxygen mask. It sounds so dramatic! I know I can be dramatic, but I'm not dramatic like that!
"I was on this podium and I had the boys circling around me while I'm trying to dance in these ridiculously high heels whilst being nervous. I was so hot that I literally started having heart palpitations and I needed to get an oxygen mask. And then I was super-embarrassed because I'm there with an oxygen mask! But it all turned out fine in the end, it was all worth it. So funny."
Alesha Dixon releases her new single 'The Way We Are' on Monday (June 21), while her album will follow later this year.