Judge Tia on her singing, not my drug shame past
The Sunday Mirror|April 23, 2023
Mum who persuaded daughter to go on BGT reveals cannabis rap
LAURA ARMSTRONG
Judge Tia on her singing, not my drug shame past

A MUM who posed as a Britain's Got Talent hopeful to get her daughter to audition has spoken about being jailed over a £6,000 cannabis stash.

Claire Connolly last night told show judges that 15-year-old Tia had changed her life and the teen went on to wow the panel with a rendition of Whitney Houston's I Didn't Know My Own Strength.

Today, Claire, 33, is begging people to judge her girl on her talent, not her mother's troubled past.

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