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Pop icon LeAnn Rimes joins The Voice UK

- VICTORIA WILSON, RICHARD MCCLURE

In a career spanning over 30 years, US singer LeAnn Rimes has won two Grammys and sold over 37 million records worldwide, with hits including How Do I Live and UK charttopper Can’t Fight the Moonlight.

Now, she’s adding ‘talent-show coach’ to her list of accomplishments as she takes her seat in a red spinning chair alongside The Voice UK veterans Sir Tom Jones and will.i.am, plus new duo Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones from rock-pop band McFly.

Here, the Mississippi-born star, who turns 42 on 28 August, talks about her new mentoring role…

What’s it like being on the panel with Sir Tom Jones, will.i.am and fellow newbies Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones?