ACROBAT ARCHER’S SKILLS ARE ON POINT
THE whirlwind adventure of Orissa Kelly is nothing short of amazing.
The British entertainer travels the world with her head-turning talent for shooting a bow and arrow using her feet.
Originally from Watford, the 24-year-old recently toured Australia, thrilling audiences with her skills.
She has been on the Gold Coast-Tweed holidaying with family and friends.
Miss Kelly burst on to the entertainment scene after appearing on popular TV program Britain’s Got Talent in 2016. Since then she has performed around the world but she said it all began from a need to be different.
“I have been a gymnast my entire life, since I was three years old – I think I learnt to handstand around the same time I learnt to walk,” she said.
“I competed for Great Britain ... and when I turned 17 I didn’t want to just stop and have all of those years wasted so I decide to carry on in a different form.
“I started doing aerial silks and I didn’t get that much work from it.
“So instead of trying to be the best gymnast or the best aerial silks artist, I decided to do something different and I decided to be the only one and that way no one could compare to me so I came up with this crazy idea.”
That idea was creating a foot-archery routine in 2015 – the first person in Britain to do so – and the first person in the world to shoot flaming arrows.
For the past few years she has been in demand across the globe. TV and movie roles have also come Miss Kelly’s way with a number of appearances on BBC shows.
Her most notable was in the box-office hit Wonder Woman.