Packed with yuletide favourites like ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas ‘ and show-stopping numbers such as ‘She Used to Be Mine’ from the hit musical ‘Waitress’, Sydnie confessed feeling “very lucky” to be able to record an album while still chasing her West End dreams.

She shared: “I’m a little bit of a perfectionist, and, this is a world that I never thought that I had a chance in, or could be involved in, so, in recording an album and things like that, because I just wanted to be on the West End. And hopefully, I am still chasing that dream. Hopefully I will be but it’s really lovely to know that I have a I have a crack at the other side of the industry, the recording side, and people like what they hear are still very lucky and grateful.”

Sydnie Christmas, the 29 year old singer who won ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ this year, revealed that she had repeatedly withdrawn from auditions in previous years due to stage fright. Before her victory on the ITV1 talent show, Sydnie was trying to make a name for herself in the West End.

She confessed to BANG Showbiz: “I don’t think I ever saw anything else for me, other than theatre. So, ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ when applying, I was going through the process on and off for four years. And I’d start sending videos, and you have to go through the producer auditions and things like that, and then I’d pull out, if I was, if I was getting a bit in the process, I’d pull out.

“I’d go back to ‘Starlight Express’ in Germany if they’d ask me or something in Germany, go to theatre where I felt safe, because when you’re in theatre, you are, you’ve got a bit of script, you’re a character. You’re tapping into somebody else. But the thought of going on stage as myself was frightening.”