TINA Turner, Madonna and two Whitney Houstons wowed a talent show audience in East Lancashire's answer to TV show Stars in Their Eyes.

Thirteen talented impersonators took to the stage to battle it out for Blackburn Lions' Search for a Star fundraising contest.

The night's performers had been whittled down from 36 following auditions earlier this year.

The event raised nearly £2,000 to be split between Derian House Children's Hospice, Chorley, and starving African children.

And the lucky winner also walked away with a £1,000 holiday voucher and 12-month performing contact from the Burnley-based club promoters, TMK Management.

The judges decided that honour should go to 18-year-old Rebecca Brennan, of Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn.

She proved the night's heroine after taking to the stage as Mariah Carey and delivering a beautiful rendition of the pop diva's hit "Hero".

And the winner, whose triumph will see her tour club venues across the region, was stunned at her success because her only previous 'performances' had been singing into a hairdryer.

The Blackburn College business student, whose family were cheering her on, said: "I am just so shocked as it was such a strong competition -- I have never really done singing before except at home in my bedroom. But because of this competition I now definitely want to sing as a career and will take it as far as I can."

Her proud mum, Linda, a nurse at Blackburn's Queens Park Hospital, said: "Her performance just blew me away. We are so proud and will support her in whatever she wants to do."

Organiser and Blackburn Lions fundraising manager, Harry Pennington, thanked all the event sponsors and back stage staff before revealing: "We have enjoyed this an awful lot and we would like to make it an annual event. Everybody has been a winner tonight."