The Pub Stars National Karaoke Competition 2008 came to a spectacular finale last week at Camelot Theme Park in Preston.
After 8 months of tough competitions across the county, the 14 Grand Finalists came together to compete for the crown of Pub Stars Champion 2008.

The atmosphere was electric with the crowd raising the roof after each performance.

Although nerves were present they did nothing but drive the adrenaline as all the finalists rose to the occasion and gave their best performance ever.

After careful deliberation the 4 judges announced their top stars of the evening in reverse order: In third place from The Malt Shovel in Hungerford was Alistair Ward. Second place was awarded to Claire Yaxley from The Regal in Norwich

Winner of Pub Stars™ 2008 is Natalie Whalin representing the Bullion Wine Bar in St Helens, Merseyside. Natalie wowed the judges with her rendition of ‘Pink’s Who Knew’. The contestants were joined on stage to receive their prize cheques from judges Richard Horne, (MD of Mediatheme™, Pascal Magdinier, (MD of Easy Karaoke, Andrew Campbell of Pub Stars™ and reigning champion of 2007 Pub Stars™ winner, Stephen Barr.

Huge congratulations to Natalie who was presented with a cheque for £3000 and a chance to record her own gold disc courtesy of Easy Karaoke. All contestants deserve our applause as all performances were of such high quality – everyone singing at this stage of the competition is already a star!