The Voice singer and Dartford florist Millie Bowell hoping to impress Olly Murs
06:00, 29 February 2020
A florist will be hoping to win over pop star Olly Murs when she appears on The Voice.
Millie Bowell works at her grandad's florist in the Priory Shopping Centre, Dartford, on weekdays but she has always wanted to sing.
The 23-year-old only started performing in April last year, explaining she "never had the confidence before".
She said: "Where I'm a bigger girl I'd always think people would laugh at me and judge me and then I got to a point where I just thought I actually don't care what people think."
Millie was given the last place in Olly's team after the final round of blind auditions on the hit ITV show.
Now she faces the battle round, when she must compete against another member of her team.
They will be singing together and Olly will have to choose which one of them goes forward.
If victorious, Millie will advance to the knock-out round where she will perform a song of her choice with a place in the final at stake.
Cheering her on will be her loyal family, many of whom work in the florist alongside her.
She said: "It's a real family business, everyone works there – my nan, my grandad, my mum, my uncle, probably a few cousins out the back as well."
But the dream for Millie, from Eltham, has always been to sing.
She said: "I love my job I really do but all I ever do is dream about singing.
"I've been singing my whole entire life. As soon as I could put a little tune together."
Catch Millie's next performance on The Voice on ITV tonight at 8.30pm.
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