Singing teacher Peter Evans is looking for a whole class of tone deaf students - and he wants to make them stars.

Peter, who has taught thousands of people to flex their vocal chords, is looking for up to 30 students - and the worse they are at singing, the better.

The vocal coach, who has a studio in The Lanes, Brighton, has been approached by the BBC to make a film about teaching the tone deaf to sing.

He said: "They want to film me working with people who can't sing, or think they can't.

"I need a bunch of people who are struggling to hold a note to come along and take part in the class.

"If they love to sing but are horribly out of tune or if they have a heart for singing but are fearful of it, they are ideal.

"It's going to be fun, free and they will be filmed by the BBC."

Peter's pupils have included Sky Edwards from Morcheeba, Lee Griffiths, who won Stars In Their Eyes and Jamie Catto, formerly of Faithless, who sang the theme tune to A Life Less Ordinary.

He has taught people from all walks of life.

He said: "One guy was a fairly serious-looking 50-year-old university professor.

"He had three children and sang so out of tune his kids asked him to mime at carol concerts. I worked with him and he ended up doing all sorts of singing."

Peter said the film was being made in the hope of convincing BBC bosses to turn it into a TV series featuring six singing teachers and their wannabe-in-tune hopefuls.

The pilot class will be held at the Rox Dance Studio at the Hove Business Centre, Fonthill Road, Hove, on Friday at 8pm.

No doubt it will be enough to reduce Pop Idol's Simon Cowell to tears.

Peter is also interested in taking on other students, whether they can sing or not, and is offering their first lesson free.

For more information, call Peter on 01273 733773.