Ella Hooper doesn't look like this anymore! Killing Heidi vocalist shocks with transformation in rare television appearance
She was the deadlocked songstress who enjoyed massive chart success in the early noughties with her band Killing Heidi.
And Ella Hooper cut a very different figure when she appeared alongside bandmate and brother Jesse on Today Extra this week
The pair were chatting to hosts David Campbell and Sylvia Jeffreys about Killing Heidi returning to the stage to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album Reflector.
Ella looked a far cry from the heady days of Weir and Mascara dominating the charts, with the singer now sporting a much more refined look.
Gone were the colourful dreadlocks and striking make-up palates and piercings Ella was known for, in favour of a classic brown shoulder length do that was augmented by bleach blonde tips.
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Brother Jesse had also swapped his once trademark bright red dreadlocks for a freshly shorn look which he kept hidden under a black fedora-style hat.
Jesse admitted, however, that he's not yet ready to say goodbye to his former look just yet.
'I've got two dreadlocks left hidden away somewhere. It's not enough to make a whole wig,' he said.
'I could do one as a moustache and then the other one is a top knot.'
Elsewhere in the interview, Ella admitted in the interview that working with her brother again still holds its charms.
'We love it,' she said. Jesse and I have got a creative connection and we're really good friends and I think we work really well together.
'We're a bit yin and yang - I'm the scruffy, unorganised one still, and Jesse is the organised timekeeper.
It comes after Ella revealed the real meaning of her band's name during an appearance on The Project.
'25 years on, who is Heidi and how is she still alive?' co-host Rove McManus asked.
'We don't talk about her!' Ella joked and then Jesse jumped in with: 'There was no particular Heidi we had in mind. We just loved that juxtaposition of words.'
'But poor old Heidi's out there. Nothing personal to Heidi, we love you all!'
Ella added the band name had caused some conflict when she was at high school.
There were some Heidi's who were like, "Are you talking about me?" No, no, no, it's just a name!' she said.
The siblings added they would be embarking on an upcoming Australian tour in celebration of the 25th anniversary of their number one album Reflector.
'We are hitting the road to play the whole album and a few other fan favourites,' Jesse said.
Ella added the tour would be very exciting because they would be performing the entire album in its track list order: 'We have never done that before!'
The siblings will kick off their anniversary tour on Friday, June 20 at The Gov in Adelaide.
They will then head to Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
In 1999, Killing Heidi - made up of Ella, her brother Jesse and their friends Aaron Hart on drums and Rowen Murphy on bass - stormed the Australian music charts with their hit song Mascara from their debut album Reflector.
The band continued to rack up more hits with their follow up songs Superman/Supergirl and Weir, and won four ARIA Awards in 2000, including Album of the Year and Best Group.
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