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Casey Donovan divides viewers with her performances during ABC’s New Year’s Eve coverage: ‘Last thing I wanted to see’

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Casey Donovan (pictured) divided ABC viewers with her New Year's Eve performance in Sydney, in which she covered Leonard Cohen's classic song Hallelujah.

Casey Donovan has divided ABC viewers with her New Year’s Eve performance in Sydney, in which she covered Leonard Cohen’s classic song Hallelujah.

The 36-year-old Australian pop star surprised her fans as she sang several songs for the annual celebration, including Defying Gravity from the musical film Wicked.

Fans were divided over the Australian Idol winner’s joyful performance and quickly took to social media to express their thoughts, with many praising her singing.

‘Casey Donovan owned the entire night with her version of Hallelujah. What a national treasure! What a voice! Sublime and emotional performance,” one person gushed.

‘That was touching and beautiful, you made my night!’ added a second person.

‘Donovan is the queen of the New Year’s celebration concert. Every year he brings it!’ a third person chimed in and another wrote: “What a voice.”

Casey Donovan (pictured) divided ABC viewers with her New Year’s Eve performance in Sydney, in which she covered Leonard Cohen’s classic song Hallelujah.

However, others were not as impressed with the performance and did not mince words in expressing their displeasure.

‘The last thing I wanted to see was Casey Donovan on NYE Sydney. ‘Not sure how he got first place on Australian Idol,’ one person criticized.

‘Did Casey Donovan wake up this morning and decide that she was going to go on stage and deliberately ruin Hallelujah?’ another user wrote.

“I’m a live and let live guy, but Casey Donovan butchered some songs tonight,” a third viewer chimed in.

Casey is a regular performer at Sydney’s New Year’s Eve concert and often divides viewers with her enthusiastic performances.

Elsewhere in the evening, furious viewers criticized ABC for making its 9pm family coverage of the iconic New Year’s Eve celebrations too “woke” in its message.

The annual celebration is typically known as the “kids’ fireworks,” and the younger crowd goes to bed before the midnight show.

The national broadcaster showed the fireworks on the iconic Sydney Harbor Bridge, which was decorated with black, red and yellow spotlights, the color of the indigenous flag.

The 36-year-old Australian pop star surprised her fans as she sang several songs for the annual celebration, including Defying Gravity from the musical film Wicked.

The 36-year-old Australian pop star surprised her fans as she sang several songs for the annual celebration, including Defying Gravity from the musical film Wicked.

Unimpressed viewers quickly took to social media to criticize ABC for “politicizing” the annual celebration.

Several complained that the event has become “woke” in recent years.

‘I’m glad ABC has once again decided to turn New Year’s Eve into another political statement. Kids don’t need fun and fireworks at 9:00 pm without a lot of cultural education. “I WOKE UP,” said an onlooker.

“Another taxpayer funded a divisive piece of shit,” a second person added.

‘How embarrassing is the music and the 9pm theme… oh wait, it’s ABC’ complained one more viewer.

Then again, Charlie Pickering made an embarrassing mistake when ABC’s New Year’s Eve broadcast began at 8.30 p.m.

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Fans were divided over the Australian Idol winner's performance and quickly took to social media to express their thoughts, with some praising Casey's singing and others criticizing it.

Fans were divided over the Australian Idol winner’s performance and quickly took to social media to express their thoughts, with some praising Casey’s singing and others criticizing it.

He was left speechless as he presented the coverage alongside co-host Zan Rowe.

“Tonight we will see the New Year live from all over the world, ah, around the world, ah, good start,” he said.

Rowe began to interrupt before Pickering quickly corrected himself.

“From the world-famous Sydney Opera House in Gadigal Country,” and the mistake prompted laughter from his co-presenter.

Read more in our Daily Mail Australia New Year’s Eve live blog.

The station broadcasts New Year’s Eve celebrations every year and regularly attracts criticism from upset viewers.

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