She said her mother had a tough year and had “been in the wars”.

“She has fibromyalgia, scoliosis and spina bifida, which is a curvature of the spine, so she does struggle, so I went, ‘if I win, I want to get an electric wheelchair and make her life as best as possible.'”

But if she wins the prize, Charlotte will also be “a little bit selfish” by buying the cats.

“I want to walk down the hill with a trail of cats behind me. That is my goal in life,” she told Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales.

Charlotte, who works on the checkout in Asda, had never travelled alone before Worlds Apart and had only been to Switzerland to the see the Eurovision song contest and on a four-day trip to Paris with her brother.

“I’m always scrolling on Instagram and I saw this post looking for people aged 18 to 25,” she said of her decision to apply for the show.

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