The Voice winner Tarryn Stokes reveals surprising plans with $100k prize money

The Voice’s Tarryn Stokes has revealed how she plans on spending her prize money after winning this year’s season of the singing competition.

The 40-year-old mother-of-three, who was coached by Rita Ora, walked away from the reality show with $100,000 and a recording contract with Universal Music Australia.

Speaking with Yahoo Lifestyle at the 2023 ARIA Awards, Tarryn revealed she has already started spending her winnings.

“I bought Nike shoes, I bought some socks for my children, and we're gonna buy a trampoline for the backyard,” she shared. “So you know, life is a mum, right? It's those kinds of things.

“And we’re gonna go on a holiday and then also pay the mortgage.”

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Tarryn went on to say that she has found the public support to be “overwhelming” following her win.

“I can't believe people like what I do,” she remarked.

“I think I've always had like negative thoughts of like, oh it's not that good, or my voice isn't that good or anything. So I feel like just having so many people like what I do has been a real confidence boost.”

'Really honoured'

Immediately after winning The Voice, Tarryn released a 5-track EP titled The Complete Collection including her winner’s single ‘Nobody’.

She explained that while she was given a choice of which original song to record, she immediately fell in love with the self-love anthem.

“[The producers] really loved this song and so I was like, ‘Okay, I'll hear it’, and then as soon as I heard it I was like, ‘Yeah, I love it’,” she detailed.

“I was kind of ready to be like, ‘I don't like this, I don't like this’, but I was like, ‘I love it’. And then when I heard that one of the songwriters has written for Christina Aguilera and they're a Grammy Award-winning songwriter I was like, that's why it's so good! So I was really, really honoured.”

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Tarryn is now hoping to release another single before the end of the year and is looking forward to performing at Carols in the Domain next month.

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