LeAnn Rimes left in tears on The Voice UK after gut-punch performance-Pierra Willix-Entertainment – Metro

The Voice UK coach LeAnn Rimes has been left in tears watching a contestant on another team perform during the semi-final.

This season of the ITV talent series comes to an end next week, but before then the 12 semi-finalists need to be whittled down to just four.

With three acts left on each of their teams, coaches Sir Tom Jones, will.i.am, LeAnn Rimes and Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones must decide who to take through.

One of the hopefuls on the McFly boys’ team is 20-year-old Kyra from Manchester, who was flooded with support from the coaches and viewers after her Blind Audition, in which she performed Jennifer Hudson’s version of Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight.

On tomorrow night’s episode Kyra takes to the stage and sings The Impossible Dream by Roberta Flack.

Kyra, who had to learn to sing again sitting down after being confined to a wheelchair last year, is met with applause from the studio audience, which includes her mum Rachel.

The Voice UK coach LeAnn Rimes has been left in tears during the semi-final (Picture: ITV)

Kyra Smith from Manchester performs The Impossible Dream (Picture: ITV)

The 20-year-old left the coaches and viewers impressed with her Blind Audition in the season premiere (Picture: ITV)

As she sings, LeAnn Rimes can be seen welling up as her lip quivers during the emotional performance.

Before the performance, Tom reassures Kyra, giving her a thumbs up and saying: ‘You’ve got this.’

Kyra’s audition was shown on the season premiere, with the student capturing the attention of Sir Tom and Tom and Danny, who turned their chairs.

The singer is on Team Danny and Tom (Picture: ITV)

Sir Tom Jones is also impressed by Kyra’s talent (Picture: ITV)

Speaking about being in a wheelchair, Kyra explained that she lives with POTS syndrome (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) which sees her experience an abnormally large increase in heart rate when standing.

She went on to explain how she is an ambulatory wheelchair user and often uses her chair when she is out of the house.

Meanwhile LeAnn previously said she was frequently overcome with emotion while working on the series.

‘I cried the whole time,’ she told Metro and other media during the launch event for the show.

The Voice semi-final airs Saturday at 8.20pm on ITV1.

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