A nurse who tested positive for the coronavirus is to wow judges on the first episode of the new series of Britain's Got Talent tonight with a song about saving lives.
Frontline nurse Beth Porch, 25, became an online sensation last year when footage of her singing and playing ukulele to a three-year-old child cancer patient was posted on the internet.
Beth, who has recently recovered from coronavirus, took to the stage and wowed judges her original song You Taught Me What Love Is, in tonight's episode which was recorded before she tested positive for the virus.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: "Obviously it's very emotionally demanding work. This song was just a way for me to process my feelings at what was a difficult time."
The nurse wrote You Taught Me What Love Is after being inspired by her experiences over five years on the cancer ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Beth revealed that she found writing the track "therapeutic" and described the track as 'a homage to all her patients, their families and what they have to go through'.
She tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms and was forced to take a few weeks off work, but is now back to normal after recovering at home.
The nurse said: "I knew I had it as soon as I started coughing. A hospital tested me because I'm frontline staff... it felt like having the flu so I wasn't too badly off."
She auditioned for the show after a clip of her playing ukulele and singing McFly's hit track All About You to patient Artie Vickerage, three, at Great Ormond Street hospital went viral.
But Beth confessed she finds it 'harder to impress two-year-olds on her ward than judge Simon Cowell'.
She said: "Honestly there are some two-year-olds who will cry their eyes out as soon as I start singing. So yeah, it's honestly harder to impress them than Simon!".
Beth, who began singing on the ward while teaching one patient to play guitar, added when she hears the Thursday night clapping for carers, it 'brings tears to her eyes because she justs feels that love'.
Beth also revealed she only told a handful of the children about her BGT performance and that parents had encouraged her to do it.
She said: “Other parents heard and they’d ask me to sing for their kids. It seemed to really cheer them up. Then one filmed me and put it on the net and everything went crazy.
“A few said I should audition for Britain’s Got Talent, so I did.”
The new series was filmed in January this year before the Coronavirus pandemic swept across the world.
Britain's Got Talent is on ITV at 8pm tonight.
