Britain’s Got Talent star Stacey Leadbeatter has shared her fears that she won’t be able to sing in the live semi-finals after being diagnosed with strep throat.

The singer impressed the judges in her audition and received a Golden Buzzer from KSI after being forced to retrain her voice due to a stutter.

Despite making it straight through to the semi-finals, Stacey, 29, has now admitted she might not be able to sing in Saturday’s life shows due to illness.

The determined star said she is hoping the strep throat won’t get in the way of her success and wants to give it her all at Wembley Arena in front of the judges.

‘My voice is only just coming back,’ she told The Mirror.

‘I am still actually on antibiotics. I haven’t been able to sing properly. I have been a bit concerned about this weekend but, hopefully, I’ll be able to do it.’

Britain’s Got Talent star Stacey Leadbeatter has shared her fears that she won’t be able to sing in the live semi-finals after being diagnosed with strep throat 

Supermarket worker Stacey first blew away the judges and audience with her audition, singing Leona Lewis’ version of Snow Patrol’s Run. 

Stacey had only performed once before her Britain’s Got Talent appearance and had to retrain her voice due to a speech impediment.

She said: ‘It is extremely hard, I have a video of me singing from four or five years ago and you couldn’t actually understand properly what I was singing due to the severity of speech impediments. 

‘So during lockdown I used to sit through like adult speech therapy sessions on YouTube and then I’d introduced it into my singing.

‘If I don’t do certain exercises for say a couple of weeks at a time, I will start to revert back to how I was.’

YouTube personality KSI, 31, decided to send Stacey straight through to the semi-finals, with fellow judge Amanda Holden, 54, branded her amazing while the huge Blackpool audience chanted ‘press the buzzer’.

Recalling how she was bullied at school, Stacey previously said: ‘In high school I used to stutter a bit and people would mimic me.

‘Children unfortunately sometimes can be a bit harsh and I wasn’t the popular girl at school.’ 

YouTube personality KSI, 31, decided to send Stacey through to the semi-finals (pictured) after singing Leona Lewis’ version of Snow Patrol’s Run

Stacey had only performed once before her Britain’s Got Talent appearance and had to retrain her voice due to a speech impediment 

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Fans went wild for the golden buzzer act, sharing their thoughts online.

Comments included: ‘Wow, she literally defied gravity with that vocal performance, she absolutely deserved that Golden Buzzer’; ‘Amazing voice well deserved golden buzzer’;

‘Absolutely amazing. She deserves the golden buzzer and I’ve fallen in love with KSI’; ‘Imagine getting a golden buzzer from KSI, wow. I hope he’s on the panel for the live shows!’;

‘Stacey is a star in the making! Her voice gave me goosebumps! Great choice for a Golden Buzzer, KSI!’; 

‘There’s just some performances & auditions that are incredibly special that you’ll never forget. Fantastic from Stacey & it’s ever better, the icing on the cake was KSI golden buzzer act. Fantastic stuff.’

The new series of the long-standing ITV compeтιтion kicked off in April and saw a range of acts try and impress judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, KSI and Alesha Dixon.

The semi-finals kicked off last weekend and the second round will air live on ITV on Saturday night from 7pm.