ITV The Voice's Olly Murs emotional over heartbreaking connection to contestant

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Olly Murs was moved to tears by a contestant's performance during an episode of ITV's The Voice UK. Sheridan, a vocal and confidence coach, sang Billie Eilish's Listen Before I Go, a song that is essentially a suicide note.

Judge Olly, 39, who had lost a "good friend" to suicide, turned his chair for Sheridan and said: "I hadn't heard that song before so when the line you said 'tell your friends that I love them' it just hit me and I got quite emotional actually.

I just went with my feeling in my heart." Sheridan, the contestant, shared his experience working for a suicide helpline and how it influenced his coaching style.

He explained: "I got very used to working with vulnerable people so I now can't separate coaching people to sing from helping them remove their mask and be openly vulnerable." A very emotional Olly, who was comforted by fellow judge Anne Marie, said: "It is really mad how on this show we just meet strangers as coaches and just hearing you speak I didn't even know that song was about suicide and obviously I lost a good friend to suicide. "It is mad actually that you've walked into my life.