'Strangled cat' set to change her tune as she appears on ITV

Angela Yates of Clipstone who is on an ITV singing show, with husband Mick and dogs Hollie and Casper.

A Mansfield woman enjoying her early retirement is living life to the full after joining the cast of a new singing game show where people compete for the chance to become the best improved singer.

Angela Yates – whose own husband described her singing as “painful” – is set to appear on the first season of ITV’s new show Change Your Tune.

The gameshow – set to broadcast next month – sees individuals undertake weeks of vocal and performance coaching from the best in the business before taking to the stage to perform in front of a studio audience and the nation at home.

And if they’ve done enough to impress, they could be walking away with thousands of pounds.

Mum-of-two Angela, aged 57 – who said her own singing as sounding like a “strangled cat” – said staff on the show “treated her like royalty”.

She said: “I can’t wait for it to go on TV, I have not seen anything.

“I was filming from September to December, now it has all stopped and I want it back. I can’t tell if I do sound better, I haven’t heard it yet, but I can get reacher higher notes now.”

Husband Mick, 58, a retired postman, said: “It was one hell of an experience and I am so proud of her from where she started off.”

Angela and her husband, of Clipstone Road East, Forest Town, are “living it up” after taking an early retirement.

And Mick entered Angela into the talent competition after they saw it featured on your Chad’s website at chad.co.uk

Angela, a keen karaoke goer who loves to hit the stage in bars at Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, said: “I didn’t think in a million years that I would ever get in – it must mean I was a really rubbish singer.

“I would do it over again and if it wasn’t for the Chad I wouldn’t have known about it.

“The producers contacted me 48 hours after I applied.

“I could have fallen to the floor when they told me I was on the show.

“I was saying ‘oh my God, oh my God, I’m going to be on TV’.”

While the show was being filmed Angela was given a vocal coach and had two lessons a week in Sheffield.

She said: “I must have sounded really awful in the application for the show – I had to send in a video of me singing. I sounded like a strangled cat - when you see the show it you will understand.”

Angela said she has thought about having extra singing lessons now she is no longer filming for the show.