Scots teacher Stevie Doc wins ITV's Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream and lands part of Sophie in West End
11.12.2023 - 07:37
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Scots musical theatre teacher Stevie Doc has been crowned the winner of reality singing show Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream.
Stevie bagged the role of Sophie in the West End production of Mamma Mia! at the Novello Theatre in London.
Over the past eight weeks the competitors have sung, danced and acted their way to the final to secure the lead roles of Sophie and Sky, and it was Stevie and Tobias Turley who scooped the prize.
Announcing the winners of the ITV1 show on Sunday was host Zoe Ball, who said: “I can now reveal that the winners of Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream are Stevie and Tobias.”
Speaking to the PA news agency following her win, Doc, 22, said: “This is just unbelievable. Actually unbelievable. I don’t believe that it’s happening.”
She added: “I was watching my dad when Zoe was about to read out who won, and he couldn’t even look up and I was like, oh my god, this is just as big to him as it is to me.”
Discussing his win, Turley, 23, said: “I was quite nervous and hesitant to even apply for this show in the first place. But I thought it’d be such a great thing.
“I just thought so many people would apply and I thought why would it be me (but) you don’t win the raffle if you don’t buy a ticket.”
The competition has seen 14 aspiring musical theatre performers take to the stage in a bid to impress a panel of judges comprising comedian Alan Carr, singer Jessie Ware, Glee star Amber Riley and Les Miserables actress Samantha Banks.
In the final, musical theatre teacher Doc, from Glasgow, was vying for the role of Sophie with Esme Bowdler, 23, a barista from Chester.
Turley, a singing waiter from Somerset, took the title of Sky against Owen Johnston, 25, a theatre usher from Belfast.
During the 75-minute show, broadcast live on Sunday,