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just 20 years old, Amelia Gething has landed her first ever show on CBBC and has a total of 950,000 followers on Instagram and YouTube alone, impressive right? Well, the actress, who has been likened to Anne Hathaway, also has a remarkable following of seven million on lip-synching app Musicaly.ly, where she began her career and made a name for herself. Amelia's comedy sketches, song covers and dance routines earned her a huge cult following on YouTube with 500,000 loyal subscribers. Now the actress has turned her attention to the exciting launch of her new CBBC show The Amelia Gething Complex, which will air in autumn 2019. HELLO! spoke exclusively to the up-and-coming star about her path to success and where she hopes the journey will take her. The comedy actress started her Musical.ly account at the age of 17. Inspired by comedy groups like The Mighty Boosh and Monty Python, she began making comedy sketches of her own and posting them online. Amelia told HELLO!: "When I was just doing Musical.ly, it was purely just for fun, and I started to get followers from there really unexpectedly and obviously I was really happy about that, so I started to use it to start a career with." The young star explained her rise to fame "happened by accident really" as she was unaware of the progression her career would take at such a young age. The successful Musical.ly star then tried her hand at creating YouTube content as an opportunity to break into comedy, creating her channel in 2016. "At school we usually did serious stuff and I only really did comedy online as when you do YouTube videos… it's usually quite light-hearted and fun," she said.