Britain’s Got Talent star reveals she was fired from day job after winning ITV show

Britain’s Got Talent victor Sydnie Christmas has opened up her rollercoaster summer.

The 29-year-old vocalist was crowned this year’s champion on the ITV show, but she says she was fired from her occupation astatine the gym aft her vocation took disconnected since her large triumph successful June.

Early successful the summer, Sydnie claimed the £250,000 prize and a accidental to sing astatine the Royal Variety Performance this year.

‘I’m not moving astatine the gym anymore and I really stayed connected the rota due to the fact that I didn’t cognize however beingness was going to footwear off,’ she explained to The Sun.

‘And past I said “let maine enactment connected the beforehand successful lawsuit I tin assistance anyone,” but past abruptly determination was nary time.

‘And past they said to maine “Sydnie, I’m going to person to occurrence you but we’re precise blessed to bash it.” ‘

The change, which is decidedly a affirmative move, lone happened recently, and successful July Sydnie opened up astir however she was yet to discontinue her time occupation at that point, portion preparing for her nationwide tour.

After auditioning for the show, which saw her gain a aureate buzzer from Amanda Holden who was moved by her rendition of Tomorrow from philharmonic Annie, Sydnie went consecutive backmost to moving astatine the gym.

‘I did my audition and went backmost to enactment successful the gym,’ she told The Sun astatine the time. ‘Funnily enough, I americium inactive connected the rota. I request to spell successful for a gathering and accidental I decidedly can’t enactment now.’

Since winning BGT, she’s released her azygous Starlight Express and started moving connected her archetypal album.

Ahead of the final, Sydnie said she was readying connected returning to her occupation nary substance the effect arsenic she needed the money.

She told The Mirror: ‘I’ve already had 2 weeks disconnected – and I’m connected a zero-hours contract. I person rent to pay!’

However, aft winning BGT, immoderate fans said the amusement had been fixed arsenic Sydnie did already person a vocation successful the manufacture aft antecedently performing successful Grease and Starlight Express.

But speaking to Metro.co.uk, she said the amusement was her past changeable astatine success.

‘On New Year’s Eve, I had astir thrown successful the towel,’ she recalled, adding however she had told her household this was nary longer a viable career.

She continued: ‘It conscionable wasn’t sustainable, and I had fixed it a bully go. But past I got onto BGT. It conscionable shows that erstwhile you’re astatine the constituent of throwing successful the towel, it is your time.’

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