CARRYING an oversized cheque for £100,000 on a busy train while rushing back for a GCSE dance exam is not the way every winner would celebrate beating more than 1,000 contestants in an online talent competition.

But 15-year-old Lucie Evans did just that hours after learning she had won 1click2fame’s internet search for the best act.

Lucie, of Templeton Drive, Fearnhead was asked to attend the final showdown event at the Proud Galleries in Camden, London last Wednesday.

The 10 acts with the most votes were due to perform in front of talent scouts in a bid to pursue their career further.

The GCSE student was dressed to impress and ready to wow the crowd with her vocals when she and another opponent’s dreams were crushed were told that they would not be allowed in the venue because they were under the age of 18.

Lucie said: “I had been practising for ages for that song and had paid for a stylist then I had to stand outside and wait for an announcement.”

Lucie, along with her parents Rob and Lorraine and close friend George Sampson - last year’s Britain’s Got Talent winner - waited patiently in a nearby pub to learn her fate.

The Birchwood Community High School year 11 pupil’s rendition of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy received more than 35,000 views over the four month period that the contest spanned and secured her the winner’s title.

“I didn’t think I had won. They had the leaderboards up in the morning and I was first, then I was second (place) and they they took them down. It doesn’t even feel real. I have always entered loads of talent competitions since I was 11 but I haven’t won a cash prize before,” she said.

Girl band The Saturdays presented her with the giant cheque before she was whisked off to a private members club to celebrate her triumph with family and friends and enjoy an Indian feast.

The teenager received her first taste of stardom when some necklaces were sent to her through the post from fans in Ireland who had backed her since the event was launched in December.

Lucie is able to spent £20,000 of the cash prize on herself but has to put the remaining £80,000 towards her future as a recording artist.

She said she will spend all of the £100,000 towards her quest to be a worldwide performing artist.

Talks are being held in London next week to see when Lucie can fly to Los Angeles and work with Marshall Altman, a well-known songwriter and producer.

His successes include the hit singer Katy Perry.

Taking her new found fame in her stride, Lucie joked that her nine-year-old sister, Molly has been asking her to sign autographs for her friends at St Margaret’s CE primary School.

She said: “It (her win) was mentioned in assembly at school but I didn’t want a lot of fuss. People have been saying hi to me and asking if I can lend them a tenner but I haven’t got any of the money! People have been saying well done which is nice.”

In the meantime Lucie is preparing for her GCSE exams and dreaming of one day being as successful as her role model Beyonce.