BGT star Sydnie Christmas reveals she went straight back to day job despite winning £250k

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4 Jul 2024, 15:46

She might have won Britain's Got Talent, but singer Sydnie Christmas has confessed she is still working at her local gym.

Sydnie won the ITV competition last month with her stunning performance of Over the Rainbow.

Her victory meant she was the first solo woman ever to win without a dog routine.

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Winning landed her £250,000, but she is still working at her day job.

She is due to sing at the Royal Variety Performance later this year, and is preparing to head out on a nationwide tour.

Sydnie revealed that after earning a golden buzzer in her audition, she went back down to earth with a bump: "I did my audition and went back to work in the gym," she said.

"Funnily enough, I am still on the rota. I need to go in for a meeting and say I definitely can’t work now," she told The Sun.

Not only that, but she has moved back in with her parents to save money on rent.

She released a single called Starlight Express and is working on an album as well as her My Way tour.

"When I got told about the tour, I thought I was just going to be someone’s warm-up. When they told me it was my tour, I was like, “Oh my God”.’

She said Simon Cowell told her: "to choose my own path and to take control"

Before the final, she she told The Mirror: ‘I’ve already had two weeks off – and I’m on a zero-hours contract. I have rent to pay!’

She also dispelled rumours that she already had a successful career and that the show was "fixed".

"On New Year’s Eve, I had almost thrown in the towel,’ she recalled, adding how she had told her family this was no longer a viable career," she told Metro.

She added: "It just wasn’t sustainable, and I had given it a good go. But then I got onto BGT.

"It just shows that when you’re at the point of throwing in the towel, it is your time."