Daily Star Sunday

We are not star makers

- EXCLUSIVE by ED GLEAVE

OLLY Murs says The Voice isn’t about finding a star.

None of the show’s seven winners have gone on to long-term success in the charts.

But coach Olly, 34, reckons that doesn’t matter and said: “We don’t sit there and tell them: ‘You’re going to make it in America and have a sell-out tour’. We’re not trying to oversell it.

“We’re giving them an amazing platform and the tools to go out into the industry.

“They get the chance to perform and they get to talk to us, which is free advice.

“But gone are the days of us being able to say, ‘You’re going to be a superstar and take over the world’. The

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