The second week of auditions on BBC1's talent show The Voice brought a few familiar faces to the stage as the judges continued to choose team members for the next stage. And among those hoping to impress Tom Jones, Jessie J, will.i.am and The Script's Danny O'Donoghue this week were former 80s pop star Deniece Pearson - who was a member of the chart-topping family quintet Five Star. Having admitted she would love to achieve the same level of success as Five Star - who scored a string of hits in the late 80s - she wowed Tom Jones with her rendition of Fighter, cheered on by her children and brother and fellow band member Stedman. "The thing that hit me more than anything else tonight was the tone and the power and I'm looking forward to having you on my team," he said. Meanwhile many of the hopefuls were making a return visit to the auditions circuit, among them Vince Kidd, who had his first stab at stardom as a member of 2007 X Factor finalists Future Proof. He won himself a place on Jessie J's team after impressing the panel with an offbeat rendition of Madonna's Like A Virgin. "I think you did a fantatsic job," Danny told him, while Jessie added, "That was amazing...when I pull this face I know that I like it." Others to make an impression included Barbara Bryceland, who had previously auditioned for The X Factor - but went one better this time after Tom Jones chose her for his team. He told the grandmother, "You are a great singer with a wonderful, wonderful voice and I am proud to have you on my team. We are going to destroy all these people!" And another former X Factor auditionee, Heshima Thompson, landed a spot in will.i.am's after all four judges made a bid for him. "I don't even want to explain why I think you're amazing," will said, while Tom added, "I thought you were great, you have it, the whole thing." However not everybody was quite so successful, with West End star Kerry Ellis failing to win the support of a single judge following her rendition of Son Of A Preacher Man. "I am looking for a specific type of girl singer," Danny told her, "and you're not it," while Tom summed up his decision with, "It seems to me that you have already made it." Others who fared well on Saturday's show included construction worker David Faulkner, who won the attention of all four judges with his rendition of Stevie Wonder's Superstition and eventually chose Jessie J, barmaid Frances Wood, who sang the Black Eyed Peas' Where Is The Love and won a place with will.I.am, and Vince Freeman, who ended up with Danny after his performance of Kings Of Leon's Sex On Fire - which he performed barefoot. The show also saw a duo, Matt Chubb and Sueleen Fletcher, make it through with a place on Tom's team after flipping a coin to decide between him and Jessie J. However not everybody was quite so lucky, with 16-year-old Holly Cosgrove and 17-year-old opera singer Shansel Huseyin among those who were knocked out of the competition after failing to win over a single judge. "I didn't turn around because I thought you were going to be a lot older and I thought I would find you intimidating," Jessie J admitted, while will.I.am later regretted his decision, saying, "I missed an opportunity to invent something here on The Voice."
