Sunday People

I WANT Says Pixie Lott

New juniors show

- By Kim Carr

RUSHING to dish out hugs to the young contestant­s on The Voice Kids, it’s easy to see Pixie Lott’s maternal side coming out.

So it’s no surprise that she is already considerin­g having her own brood.

She might only be 26 but with a wedding on the cards next year, the singer has achieved more than most young women her age, having hit the big time when her debut single Mama Do soared to No 1 eight years ago.

As she made her debut as a coach yesterday evening on the ITV1 series alongside Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am, 42, and McFly frontman Danny Jones, 31, Pixie confided: “I would love to be a mum one day.”

But with a new album planned for next year, West End actress Pixie – who took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 – first has to find time to plan her nuptials to fashion model Oliver Cheshire, 29.

She smiled and said: “I have a really close family and have really strong family values but children are not for right now because everything’s a little too busy.

“We haven’t even started planning our wedding yet.”

Tears

With the terror attacks in Manchester and London dominating the headlines, Pixie hopes The Voice Kids offers light relief.

“I think it’s a really feelgood show,” said Pixie, from Bromley, south-east London.

“The energy is off the scale because of the children. I hope it brings smiles to everyone’s faces.

“It is really heart-warming when you see all the mums and the kids run to them for a big hug. It reminds me of me and my family.

“When something really pivotal happens you want the people closest to you to hold you, that’s why it’s so lovely.”

She was born Victoria Louise and nicknamed Pixie by her Best Friends Forever mum Beverley, who has become good pals with Danny Jones’s mum Kathy after hanging out together backstage during filming of The Voice Kids.

Guitarist Danny is hoping for a new family bond of his own off the back of the series as he talks for the first time about wanting to rebuild his relationsh­ip onship with his estranged father Alan.

It should be the auditionin­goning children holding back tears but the chart-topping rt-topping singer was shocked when one youngster’ster’s outpouring of love for his dad hit a raw nerve.

Bolton-born Danny revealed:ed: “When this kid comes on and talks aboutt his dad I was like, ‘That hurt a bit’.

“I’ve always been close to myy mum and family but that’s one bit I got emotional over. It’s so nice to see because e I didn’t have that – I just had my mum um to be there for me.

“So to see them have the wholehole family there... grandparen­ts are so important. mportant.

Magic

“You look up to your parents, they look up to their parents, so youou are looking up to somebody who’s lookingg up to them. It’s double the idol. “It’s really nice to see their eir families at the side of the stage and that magic where t hey’re j ust having a moment.” Danny married formermer Miss England Georgia Horsleyy in 2014. His parents split up whenn he was 18, two years after he joined McFly, who have hadd seven number ones, sold morere than 10 million albums andnd won numerous awards includnclu­ding a BRIT. He has had no contact ontact with his father since t hen but remainsain­s incredibly close to his mum. Danny is openn to

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