Sisters with heart conditions 'excited' to sing on TV
BBCThree sisters who were all born with a heart condition will be performing with the BBC Children in Need choir.
Alice, Chloe and Lucy, aged seven, eight and nine, take singing lessons with the Gloucester charity Heart Heroes and will be performing in Salford, Manchester, on 15 November.
Alice, seven, who lives with her family between Worcestershire and Gloucester, had a pacemaker fitted and will require medication for the rest of her life.
She said: "I'm really excited because I get to sing along with other people."
Mum Zoe said: "It's going to be quite special. I'm going to cry like a baby.
"Everything is quite heavy a lot of the time so this is just a bit of lightness."
Zoe added that her daughters support "each other and are great friends".
All three daughters were born with a hole in their hearts, but the condition affects Alice the most.
Alice has already undergone five open-heart surgeries.
Zoe said that the things "we take for granted, Alice can't do".
"She would like to do gymnastics, get her ears pierced - but she can't do those things," she added.
Kelly Cornish is the founder of Heart Heroes who with the help of a grant from BBC Children in Need support children who live with life-long heart conditions.
"The children are fantastic," Ms Cornish added.
"They all understand each other and what it means to have a heart condition.
"Zoe and the girls have been with us since the creation of Heart Heroes so it's been great to see them grow."
Ms Cornish said she will be very "proud of the girls" when they perform at the event, which will be shown on BBC One's Children in Need this Friday.
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