BGT 'The world is my oyster,' says singer Sydnie Christmas

Britain’s Got Talent singer, Sydnie Christmas, believes “the world is her oyster” after her two rousing performances on the show -- but she fully expects to be back at the Kent gym where she works on Monday after tonight’s BGT final.

“I’ve already had two weeks off,” she said, “and I’m on a zero-hours contract. I have rent to pay!”

She added: “In a year’s time, I hope I'm living my dream.

“I want to be doing what I love for my living instead of rolling towels and making shakes!”

Christmas, 28, is now a short-priced bookies favourite in tonight’s Final after getting through the semi-final stage with her own “risky” version of My Way.

She admits she was taken over by the moment in the semi-final.

“It’s so funny you say I was looking more confident, because literally my voice coach had to walk me on the stage because I was so nervous.

“I'm very happy that it didn't look that way because I was terrified.”

She agreed the song was risky.

“Absolutely. I think that's one of the reasons why I was so nervous because it was my own version. It was ‘my own way’, wasn't it?

“Some people would say ‘what's not broken, you don't need to fix that’. But I just hoped that people liked what I'd done with it. And I really hoped it would land.”

She felt much better after winning a place in the final.

“I would have never thought in a million years I'd make it to a final to tell you the truth.”

“There are no words to describe it. It is unbelievable. I'm ecstatic.

Along with her boyfriend Max, her two grandmothers, Nanny Breda and Nanny Maureen, have supported her in the audience.

“I wouldn't be doing it, if they're not there. I'm not going!”

She always spots her nans in the theatre.

“I do look at them when I sing. I do look into the audience quite a lot. I'm very much telling a story.

“I'd like to think I'm very conversational when I sing. I want people to understand what I'm saying.”

With messages of support from legend Gloria Gaynor and singer Nelly Furtado, she’s looking to the future now.

“I'd love to be on the West End stage. That is where I want to be, I want to be near my family. And the West End is where to do it.

“But with this opportunity, I feel like the world is my oyster at the minute so I feel up to any opportunity as long as I'm entertaining, I just want to grab it with both hands and jump into it.”

Britain’s Got Talent: The Final, ITV tonight, 7.30pm