Lucy Spraggan served up Tea and Toast at X Factor Bootcamp audition

Lucy Spraggan impressed earlier this year at her first audition singing one of her own composition that saw her through to bootcamp.

However, at bootcamp she appears to have got off to a bad start singing covers of songs she did not know so well. At one point we even thought Lucy would be on the next train home, but the 20-year-old singer song-writer turn things around when she launched into another of her own songs called ‘Tea and Toast’.

Before singing the track Spraggan warned the panel that she had a sad song up her sleeve. She revealed that she had written the song after watching an elderly couple in the street.

She said:

“I was busking in town and this elderly couple walked past holding hands. Then the lady collapsed in the street and was unconscious.

“And the look on the husband’s face was like he’d never lost her before and he’d just lost her then.

“It inspired me to write the song — after I got them into an ambulance.”

Her performance of the track reduced a 5,000 strong audience to tears, who packed Liverpool’s Echo Arena and they gave her a standing ovation.