Whatever the BBC is paying the fashionable, foxy, young London pop star is a bargain. She brought more natural, likeable, life to proceedings than her predecessors Jessie J and Kylie Minogue put together, although hopefully she will curb the temptation to copy their habit of ostentatiously dancing in her chair.
It was Ora who made the most constructive comments – telling Kym Marsh’s daughter that she needed to stand out more – and the funniest.
‘I hope you choke on your chicken!’ she pouted with fake bitterness to Ricky and his first protégé Letitia George after she had asked all the judges vying for her approbation which spice they ate chicken with (don’t ask).
‘She’s got her ear to the ground. I mean, I’m not saying I don’t…’ Wilson said about Ora, jokingly but acknowledging at the same time that he doesn’t.
The way she swooned over 17-year-old Ryan Green (‘you’re so handsome!’) and hunky fireman Stevie McCrorie (‘you’re really hot’) was endearingly open.
As for 16-year-old Stephen McLoughlin (who looked about 10), he may have failed to win selection from any of the judges but he did get a note telling him not to give up and a hug from a semi-naked Rita Ora, which was probably preferable.
That other headline though. "Little Miss look at me! How Rita Ora the risqué new star of BBC's The Voice - daughter of an Albanian pub landlord - has built a career out of outrageous attention seeking"
That other headline though. "Little Miss look at me! How Rita Ora the risqué new star of BBC's The Voice - daughter of an Albanian pub landlord - has built a career out of outrageous attention seeking"
That other headline though. "Little Miss look at me! How Rita Ora the risqué new star of BBC's The Voice - daughter of an Albanian pub landlord - has built a career out of outrageous attention seeking"
