Dartford florist Millie Bowell knocked out of ITV's The Voice
08:41, 01 March 2020
updated: 08:46, 01 March 2020
A Kent singer has been knocked out of The Voice.
Dartford florist Millie Bowell went head to head with fellow contestant Ty Lewis in the ITV show's battle round, with the hopes of impressing pop star Olly Murs.
But the 23-year-old, who works at her grandad's shop in the Priory Shopping Centre, Dartford, wasn't picked to progress after performing If The World Was Ending, by Julia Michaels and JP Saxe.
Millie was given the last place in Olly's team after the final round of blind auditions last month.
There was slight hope for her with music legend Tom Jones having the option to 'steal' her. But the Welsh singer didn't take up the option and Millie was sent home.
Speaking before her performance, she said: "Before the blind audition I felt so nervous, I was thinking 'I can't do this, I can't do this'.
"With my last note I just kept holding it and holding it and was thinking I can't breathe mate can you turn round.
"Nothing's really changed since with life, I'm still down the florist with my family and with my grandad winding me up all the time like he always does.
"But, I don't want to do that anymore."
Speaking last month, Millie, from Eltham, admitted she only began performing in April last year, saying she never had the confidence before to start.
"Where I'm a bigger girl I'd always think people would laugh at me and judge me," she said.
"Then I got to a point where I just thought I actually don't care what people think."
