The X Factor mobile auditions hit Yeovil today and local aspiring pop-stars were waiting up to three hours to perform their songs.
Yeovil teenager Danielle Kennedy auditioned at The 94 Club in the centre of Yeovil, arriving at 8.30am, an hour and a half early, to ensure she would be one of the first to audition.
Dannielle has auditioned twice previously for national talent show Britain's Got Talent. Despite no queues at the club the young aspiring singer didn't perform until around 11am.
Danielle, a student at Buckler's Mead Academy, said: "I didn't get through this year but it was a really great experience and really fun to do.
"I got here at around 8.30am with all my family to avoid the queues but it was a very long wait before I got seen.
She added: "I have wanted to be a pop star for as long as I remember and I'm definitely not going to give up on that dream."
Danielle sung Ed Sheeran's The A Team in front of the cameras.
Her dad, Shane Kennedy, waited with her at the audition and said she was extremely talented for her age.
He said: "She sings at home all the time and we all think she's very talented for her age.
"We have taken her to audition at Britain's Got Talent twice before but she didn't make it through. This was the first time she was old enough to audition for The X Factor.
"She has a beautiful and unique voice due to a medical condition with her throat, she's been told at auditions that her voice is very unique.
At 11am around 30 people were waiting to audition at the local club.
Yesterday when the mobile auditions kicked off across Britain they saw little success with just one person turning up to audition in Colchester.
Anita Spalding, licensee of The 94 Club, said she was shocked but delighted that the X Factor team wanted to use the club for the auditions.
She said: "At first I thought it was a joke.
"I think they contacted the council first then they contacted me because they wanted a room upstairs where they could do the auditions privately.
"I'm pretty chuffed they have chosen us."
Yeovil teenager Danielle Kennedy auditioned at The 94 Club in the centre of Yeovil, arriving at 8.30am, an hour and a half early, to ensure she would be one of the first to audition.
Dannielle has auditioned twice previously for national talent show Britain's Got Talent. Despite no queues at the club the young aspiring singer didn't perform until around 11am.
Danielle, a student at Buckler's Mead Academy, said: "I didn't get through this year but it was a really great experience and really fun to do.
"I got here at around 8.30am with all my family to avoid the queues but it was a very long wait before I got seen.
She added: "I have wanted to be a pop star for as long as I remember and I'm definitely not going to give up on that dream."
Danielle sung Ed Sheeran's The A Team in front of the cameras.
Her dad, Shane Kennedy, waited with her at the audition and said she was extremely talented for her age.
He said: "She sings at home all the time and we all think she's very talented for her age.
"We have taken her to audition at Britain's Got Talent twice before but she didn't make it through. This was the first time she was old enough to audition for The X Factor.
"She has a beautiful and unique voice due to a medical condition with her throat, she's been told at auditions that her voice is very unique.
At 11am around 30 people were waiting to audition at the local club.
Yesterday when the mobile auditions kicked off across Britain they saw little success with just one person turning up to audition in Colchester.
Anita Spalding, licensee of The 94 Club, said she was shocked but delighted that the X Factor team wanted to use the club for the auditions.
She said: "At first I thought it was a joke.
"I think they contacted the council first then they contacted me because they wanted a room upstairs where they could do the auditions privately.
"I'm pretty chuffed they have chosen us."
