Disappointment for Kylie on 'The Voice'
Kylie Minogue failed to convince a former 'Emmerdale' actress to join her team on 'The Voice' last night.
The singing show has a new soap star after Kelsey-Beth Crossley impressed the coaches last night – and it was Ricky Wilson, not the former 'Neighbours' star, who won her over.
The 21-year-old from Blackpool, who played Scarlett Nicholls in the long-running rural soap for five years, admitted Minogue was an inspiration, but it turned out their background in soap was not enough to make her choose the Australian superstar as her coach.
After Crossley’s rendition of 'Fell In Love With A Boy', Minogue said: “This is my pitch – so, you were in a soap opera?”
Her question sparked knowing giggles from the audience, and Kaiser Chiefs star Wilson then said that due to Emmerdale being set near Leeds she should probably choose him.
A confident Minogue replied to Wilson: “You can’t fight with what’s going to happen.”
Crossley said she was “completely torn” due to Minogue being an “inspiration” to her but admitted that Wilson’s pitch was “so good”.
In the end, she chose Wilson, saying: “I’ve fallen for it.”
Earlier, Crossley said: “Me and Kylie have in common that we both were from a soap and she has had a massive career in the music industry since then.
“I love to sing and it was my first thing that I got into but when I got into Emmerdale I had to put it on the backburner a little bit.
“I am serious about being a musician and I’m ready.”
Also out to impress the judges was 56-year-old Bob Blakeley, a warehouseman from Stockport, whose performance of Cry Me A River got the audience on their feet and left Will.i.am stunned.
The US star told him: “Your voice is just pristine, you sound like a pro, if Frank Sinatra was here he would be like ’wow I wanna take you on tour with me’.”
Tom Jones said he had a “beautiful voice with a beautiful tone”, but the warehouseman’s Voice ambitions were ended last night.
“The whole experience has been off the scale,” Blakeley said.
Teenager Jermain Jackman, from Hackney, closed the show with his version of 'I Am Telling You' by Jennifer Hudson.
The would-be politician, 18, who works with the Labour Party in east London, said he wants to be “the first singing black Prime Minister”, and took his place on Will.i.am’s team.
Show bosses will be hoping last night’s episode continues the success of the first, which pulled in more than two million viewers more than last year’s launch.
Critics have hailed Minogue’s appearance on the show – along with fellow newcomer Wilson – as having boosted the average audience to 8.4 million viewers, well above the 6.2 million who tuned in last year.
Last weekend it also thrashed ITV’s celebrity diving show 'Splash!' – which went head-to-head with the BBC1 show – with an audience of 3.7 million, according to overnight ratings.
