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HOW I SURVIVED AND THRIVED

Girls helped me love music after X Factor misery

- BY KIM CARR

I want to help others who are picked on to follow their dream

KYLE TOMLINSON VOWS TO TACKLE THE TROLLS SEMI-FINAL Miss Treat Vibe in action MISS Treat Vibe singer Jeanette Akua has revealed she was so down after being axed from X Factor in 2013 she quit singing for two years.

Take That’s Gary Barlow put Jeanette in flop trio Miss Dynamix, who were eliminated in week three, and split shortly afterwards.

She credits new bandmates Moesha Ottaway, 19, Bambi Bains, 22, and Lavelle Daley, 22, for giving her confidence to enter BGT.

Jeanette, 24, said: “When I met the girls a year ago, they made me fall in love with music all over again.”

Tonight marks the start of a week of five Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals, with the winner crowned on Sunday.

Two acts will qualify for the final through viewer votes each evening, with the judges picking an extra wildcard act for the final.

Along with Kyle and Miss Treat Vibe, the other semi-finalists are: St Patrick’s Junior Choir Drumgreena­gh: The 36-member Northern Irish choir of eight to 12-year-olds sang Keane’s Somewhere Only We know in their audition. PC Dan: Dancing copper whose KEANE TO WIN St Patrick’s Jnr Choir

moves have chalked up 1.5million YouTube views after he threw shapes – in his uniform – for charity. Niels Harder: Bonkers wild-haired magician from the Netherland­s who tried to behead host Ant McPartlin. Empire Dance Crew: Rycardo Gomez’s troupe told the Little Mix story in energetic style. DNA: Duo who impressive­ly read the minds of Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden and changed their T-shirts with no one in the crowd noticing. Tyrone & Mina: The ace knife-throwing couple. Britain’s Got Talent live semi-finals are from tonight until Friday at 7.30pm on ITV1. SHARP Tyrone & Mina

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