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Samantha is kicked off Nancy show |
Jodie wins Nancy BBC talent show |
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Samantha Barks has become the first actress to be kicked off the live final of the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything. | Actress Jodie Prenger has landed the role of Nancy in the West End musical Oliver! after winning the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything. |
On hearing the results the 17-year-old said: "This has been the most amazing experience of my life." | The 28-year-old from Blackpool, who chose to perform I have Nothing, burst into tears as host Graham Norton announced the winner. |
Jodie Prenger and Jessie Buckley remain in the competition which is searching for an actress to play Nancy in the new West End musical Oliver! | "Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm so chuffed," she said. |
A public vote will determine the winner of the BBC One show, who will be revealed at 2045 BST by Graham Norton. | Jodie Prenger came second in the competition, which was decided by a public vote. |
Three boys have already been selected to share the title role in the musical version of Dickens' Oliver Twist. | Three boys have already been selected to share the title role in Cameron Mackintosh's musical version of Dickens' Oliver Twist. |
| Unlike the 12 wannabe Nancys selected for the show, however, their fate was not decided by a public vote. | Unlike the 12 wannabe Nancys selected for the show, however, their fate was not decided by a public vote. |
Andrew Lloyd Webber, who up until the final has been sat on the judging panel, told Norton he was not surprised by the result. | |
"I thought it might happen this way," he said. | |
He told Samantha he thought she had done "wonderfully well" to have got as far as she did in the contest. | |
The 17-year-old from the Isle of Man, performed her version of Dionne Warwick's Anyone Who Had a Heart. | |
Jessie, who is 18 and from County Kerry in Ireland, has been performing since the age of seven. | |
She sang Roberta Flak's The First Time I Saw Your Face. | |
At 28, Jodie, from Blackpool, is the oldest of the three remaining contestants. A keen salsa dancer, she currently works as an agony aunt. | |
During the week of rehearsals all three contestants got to work with veteran stage performer Liza Minnelli. | |
