The Voice contestants were all out of tune, says Andrew Lloyd Webber – Daily TV round-up

Andrew Lloyd Webber has said that he couldn't watch 'The Voice' because all of the contestants were singing out of tune.

The West End producer, composer and talent show judge, slated the show ahead of his new series 'Superstar' which starts on ITV this weekend.

“I don’t know what the problem was there. Everyone was out of tune all the time. I just couldn’t watch it,” he told Radio Times.

“Unfortunately, I have perfect pitch - it’s either one of the great advantages or the greatest affliction in life. When people sing out of tune, I just can’t listen.”

'Superstar' will hunt for a new Jesus to star in a remake of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar', but he added that he's banned his judges, which include Dawn French and Jason Donovan,  from using talent show cliches.

“What I really, really want to do is to sit down with everyone and tell them that there are certain reality show cliches and I think we ought to have a gong system,” he said.

“It’ll gong us out if anyone says, ‘You’ve had a fantastic journey’ or, ‘Although you’ve lost, I’m sure we’re going to hear from you again’.”

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Meanwhile, Dawn French has said that she is worried about swearing during the live shows of ‘Superstar’. “I'm a notoriously rampant swearer and enjoy expletives enormously,” she said. “I'm trying to use up all my foul language now so that I am severely depleted when it comes to the live telly.” [The Mirror]

Eamonn Holmes and his wife Ruth Langsford have spoken about abuse they have received on Twitter at the hands of internet trolls. “The intensity of it was absolutely amazing,” said Holmes, who saw the messages coming from a teenager's account. “She said, ‘I detest you on TV, you are an a*******’.” [The Sun]

'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' dressmaker Thelma Madine has started a dress-making school in her Liverpool shop. “The travellers have helped put me where I am today and this is my way of giving something back,” she said, but added that it had proved a challenge. “After the first day I cried my eyes out and thought, 'What have I done?'. My vision was to see them all sat in lines sewing and me saying, 'This is how you do it'. What I didn't realise is they don't act like 16 or 17-year-olds - they were more like 10 or 11-year-olds because they finished school at 11.” [The Mirror]