BUBBLY Laura Jaye is hoping to become the next presenter on GMTV's children's programme Diggit.

The Blackpool teenager, pictured here, has got through to the final 20 out of 9,000 hopefuls and and over the weekend viewers saw just how she did it!

The programme showed in "Popstars" style how the wannabes were whittled down in a series of gruelling auditions.

Laura is 17 and from Bispham Road. Her real name is Duckworth but is now only known by her stage name of Jaye.

Laura said: "I was among the best 138 invited to go for audition at York and from that just two of us were picked to be in the final 20.

"I had to do lots of improvising, ad-libbing also silly things to see if I was self-conscious or not. I also had to interview the former presenter Fearne Cotton, whose place I will be taking if I am picked. " Laura got her first break in the TV world when as a member of Tip Toes Dance School in Blackpool she was picked by cable teen channel Rapture TV to be among a group reviewing films and discussing issues.

She said: "From there I got picked to present Soap Fever on ITV 2 when I had to interview soap celebrities.

Diggit is a live children's show featuring cartoons and interviews with popstars and is a bit like Live and Kicking but for younger children.

Laura is blonde but she says she's no blonde bimbo having nine GCSEs, two A*, six As and a B. She is also studying for two A-levels on a correspondence course.

This Sunday Laura and her mum will travel to London for the next stage of the auditions when 20 become six.

Producers are then considering asking the viewers to vote for the new presenter.

Although she has qualifications to back her up if she doesn't make it as a presenter, she said: "It will work. I am determined."