Jermain Jackman: The Voice winner was barred from own party



Jermain Jackman shot to fame as winner of BBC One's singing competition The Voice - yet despite this he was once barred from an after-party for one of his own gigs. After a video emerged showing black students being barred from a club in Leicester due to their race, he was one of many who contacted the BBC to say similar things had happened.

The incident outside the Ghost nightclub in Leicester struck a chord with Jackman, who tweeted in response to the story.

He says himself, his brothers and friends have all experienced racism outside nightclubs in London.

"I remember standing outside a Mayfair club with other contestants off The Voice and The X Factor and other TV shows," he says. "I remember standing outside for an hour and I was hearing excuse after excuse from the bouncers."

Eventually one of the organisers of the concert got him admitted but his friend, who is Turkish, was still refused entry.

It was not the first time he had been turned away from a club. Partway through filming The Voice, Jackman changed his haircut after being turned away by another doorman in an incident he believes was racially-motivated.

"I remember one of the guards saying, 'We don't know your haircut, it might be a gang-affiliated type of haircut'."