Not long after appearing on The Sullivans, Dannii asked her parents if she could start taking singing and dancing lessons. They agreed but told Dannii she had to make a choice between her piano lessons and singing and dancing. She was only too happy to give up all those boring scales! Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. "She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this'," Dannii says. "She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."

So Dannii started lessons at The Johnny Young Talent School in Melbourne and it wasn't long before she was appearing regulary, with other talented students, on the TV show. Three years later, at the age of ten, Dannii auditioned to become a full-time Young Talent Time member. "I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen." She auditioned in front of musical director and former team member Greg Mills, and John Young himself. "I couldn't sing to save myself," she says. "Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'."

From that moment on Dannii's life was busy, busy, busy. She went to school in the mornings and in the afternoons would head off for dance rehearsals, singing rehearsals, recording or costume fittings. Television House, where Young Talent Time was produced, became like a second home and her fellow team members were like a second family. The team member Dannii was closest to was Vince Del Tito.

"We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other," she says. Apart from singing, dancing and acting, Dannii's other big interest was clothes. She designed a few outfits for her solo numbers on Young Talent Time and whenever she wore one of her creations the wardrobe department was flooded with inquiries. So it was a natural progression that Dannii should start her very own fashion label. Her manager approached the fashion buyers at Myer and K-Mart stores with the idea, and the Dannii label was born.

Starting with a small range, she designed a selection of different outfits. They were an immediate nationwide success, and Dannii has been busy designing larger and larger ranges ever since.

To see details on the YTT Reunion that Dannii Organised in 2001, just click here.