TEN-year-old singing sensation Hollie Steel’s heart-stopping performance on ITV show Britain’s Got Talent has catapulted her to instant fame – on both sides of the Atlantic.

Before she hit the nation’s screens, Huncoat girl Hollie was just an ordinary schoolgirl – but just seven days on she is living the dream and is one of the hot favourites to win the contest.

Her pitch-perfect performance of I Could Have Danced All Night has been the talk of the adoring national media and has already attracted over four million hits on You Tube, while Hollie has even won the hearts of American TV audiences.

Millions of viewers saw little Hollie receive a rapturous ovation in Manchester after her song and dance audition dressed in a tutu. Judge Piers Morgan beamed: "We have seen a lot of children on our show over the last three series and I have never heard any of them sing as well as you do."

Fellow judge Simon Cowell had motioned to hit his buzzer when she began dancing, but his jaw dropped in amazement when he heard Hollie’s angelic voice.

On Saturday night Hollie and her parents Nina and Jason and 15-year-old brother Joshua enjoyed the show with close friends and our photographer at their home, and immediately after the performance was aired they were besieged with dozens of text messages and phone calls.

After a whirlwind of publicity, Hollie has now appeared on American smash TV shows Today and Extra as well as GMTV, Granada Reports and closer to home Channel M.

This week the TV cameras followed her every move when she returned to Whalley’s Oakhill College for the first time since the show went out, and was mobbed by schoolmates.

Hollie has now been tipped as second favourite to win the competition, behind 47-year-old singer Susan Boyle, from West Lothian, with further heats to be followed by final stages at the end of the month.

Mum Nina, 37, said the public reaction to her daughter has been "unbelievable".

She said: "We are so thrilled with how the public have taken to her. It was scary because we didn’t know how people were going to react but the response has been absolutely great."

Hollie recalled: "When I came on to the stage and danced they were all going ‘ahh’. But when I started singing the first verse they began cheering and I couldn’t hear myself sing. But it was really exciting.

"The phone has been ringing all the time since Saturday. It was good watching it on telly but it was nerve-racking seeing if it was a good or a bad audition."

Hollie, who, like Joshua, sings and dances at the Basic Theatre School in Colne, landed her first part when she was just six, playing a starring role in Joseph.

Among her singing idols she counts Kerry Ellis from her favourite musical Wicked, along with X Factor diva Alexandra Burke.

And she is aiming to emulate 13-year-old Faryl Smith in securing a record contract on the back of the show, while Joshua, who didn’t make it through the auditions, has plans to enter X Factor next year.

Nina said: "The story of Faryl is her dream story as she wants to have a record deal. And musical theatre is one of her favourites too."

But it might have never happened for Hollie who fell seriously ill with pneumonia when she was just four, leaving doctors considering taking out a lung.

Nina, who, like Jason, is an NHS audiologist, said: "It was a bit touch and go when it got really bad, but she got better after a couple of months in hospital, though she’s still tiny for her age.’’

She added: "All we want for Hollie is to have fun and maybe get to the final because if she does she could get a record deal and that’s what she wants."