DUE to the ten-year-old in our house, we watched the final of the Voice at the weekend.

Maybe it is just me, but I am not sure its move to the ITV has made it any more accessible or vital an inclusion in the talent search category of shows we currently must endure, I mean enjoy.

No sooner will this finish but, as a series of irritating adverts currently hint, Britain's Got Talent will soon arrive.

And the winner of that will only just have finished counting their prize money and deciding what to wear for when they meet royalty and Essex's own Dermot O'Leary will shimmy back on our screen with the X-Factor.

We spend the televisual year watching wannabes compete to escape their every day lives.

Not one of them ever says 'I quite like my life, I have a good job and I really enjoy it but I have always liked singing so I thought I would give it a go.'

Most have a sad tale to tell and, sorry to bring a downer, but I do think it is setting a bad example to the generation coming up who actually think being a singer is a viable career option.

This week my daughter discovered Ed Sheeran does not have any GCSEs along with a handful of other performers she admires.

Her eyes glazed over when I said this was an exception to the rule.

While I am delighted for the young and successful singers on these shows I do think pedalling this idea working in ordinary jobs and living decent lives is somehow a bad thing is slightly dangerous. It works for plenty of people.

And for me, returning to my original point of the Voice finale, it will be solely imprinted in my memory for Jennifer Hudson's interesting sartorial choices.

A stand-out for me would surely be the denim jacket which looked like the ironing board had been left in it.

Gavin from the rock band Bush, who very few of the contestants chose presumably because they had never heard of him, did not want her to feel alone in the questionable style stakes so he chose a series of dodgy hairstyles with which to compliment J-Hud's outfits.

She didn't care though because her act, Mo, won.  It only remains to be seen if he will go the way of the previous Voice winners, none of which have gone on to any kind of commercial success.

That really will be the defining moment for whether its arrival on ITV was a triumph or not.