HE is the X Factor winner who has proved he has the voice to keep him in starring roles.

Singer Joe McElderry won the 2009 ITV talent show, when he was just 18 years old, beating both Olly Murs and Stacey Solomon.

And this summer the 24-year-old from South Shields will take to the stage of Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre playing the lead in the 2016 touring production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

He will appear alongside Britain’s Got Talent’s Lucy Kay who plays the Narrator when the show arrives from July 5 to July 9.

After his X Factor success Joe then soared to number one on the UK singles charts with his rendition of Miley Cyrus’s The Climb and his debut album Wide Awake went straight in at number 3 on the UK albums chart.

He has since gone on to have two more top 10 albums, and he became the first X Factor star to release four albums, with a fifth in the making.

Lucy Kay scored her first number one album in 2014, after her stunning debut album Fantasia shot straight to the top of the classical album chart.

The singer, originally from Leicestershire, shot to fame and captured the country’s hearts as runner up on Britain’s Got Talent in 2014.

Following her success on the show, Lucy also recorded the song Flower of Scotland with the band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Navy.

Lucy was also a special guest on Andrea Bocelli’s 2014 tour.

Having garnered sensational reviews and standing ovations at every performance since its inception almost 35 years ago, Bill Kenwright’s “amazing”, “superb”, “wonderful” and ‘brilliant’ production of this sparkling family musical has now sold an estimated 20 million tickets.

This retelling of the biblical story about Joseph, his 11 brothers and the coat of many colours sings out to young and old alike with a score which is crammed wall to wall with hits, including Jacob and Sons, Close Every Door and Any Dream Will Do.