🇬🇧 Justine Afante

Series four

The Voice Kids UK runs on ITV1 and takes singers aged 7 to 14. Its fourth series, in 2020, was won by Afante from Pixie Lott's team, with Emma Willis presenting. The other three finalists were George Elliott, Dara McNicholl and Victoria Alsina.

The panel had changed since the previous year. will.i.am, Pixie Lott and Danny Jones remained; Paloma Faith had replaced Jessie J, who had sat on the series three panel.

A coach's win is not a formality. Each coach assembles a team at the blind auditions, cuts it down through the battles, and then hands the result to a public vote in the live final. The chair-turn that starts it is made on the voice alone.

How the show works

The format keeps the structure of the adult franchise. In the blind auditions the coaches sit with their backs to the stage and turn only if they want the voice. For a child performer that removes appearance, height and stage confidence from the first judgement, which is the single strongest argument for the format's existence.

Battles follow within each team, then a semi-final, then a live final. A competitor between the ages of 7 and 14 therefore faces several rounds of televised elimination in a matter of weeks, with the last of them decided by the country rather than by a coach.

The prize

The winner receives £30,000. For the 2020 series the title also carried a family trip to the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida, the previous year's finalists having been sent to Walt Disney World.

What the prize is not is a recording contract. The children's edition awards money and a holiday, which is the more defensible arrangement for a winner who is still at school. It also means that a Voice Kids title does not, by itself, start a career. What a winner does with it afterwards is a separate question, and in this case an undocumented one.

What is known since

The searches that bring most people to a page like this one are for Justine Afante's age and for what she is doing now. The honest answer to both is that the source available here does not say.

That source is the series results table for The Voice Kids UK, which records the winner, the coach, the finalists, the panel and the prize, and nothing further. It does not give her age at the time of the final, where she lives, her school, the songs she performed or any statement from her or her family. No contemporaneous news report was reachable to extend it. She was a child when the series aired, and the absence of follow-up coverage about a child is not a gap this page will fill with inference.

What is documented, and what is not

Firm: Afante won series four of The Voice Kids UK in 2020; her coach was Pixie Lott; the other finalists were George Elliott, Dara McNicholl and Victoria Alsina; the panel was will.i.am, Paloma Faith, Pixie Lott and Danny Jones; the host was Emma Willis; the prize was £30,000 and a family trip to the Universal Orlando Resort; the show runs on ITV1 for singers aged 7 to 14.

Not documented: her age and birth year, her home town, her school, the songs she sang at any stage, any quotation from her, and anything about her life since the final. The single source available here is an encyclopedia results table rather than news reporting, and it should be treated as a record of the outcome only.