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A new Westlife, a Sheep and Hoodies - Britains Got Talent |
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Written by Telly Addict
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Only two more weeks of auditions to go, and this week's Britain's Got Talent has a new Westlife, a roaming sheep and a dance group wearing hoodies
As always this week each act has to impress self appointed King of Cool Piers Morgan, one woman water fountain Amanda Holden and the shy and retiring Simon Cowell.
The New Westlife?
First up hoping to make an impression on the Judges are Mike and Sean, aka Southlife, a couple of best friends from Portsmouth. Southlife hope they can follow in the footsteps of their heroes Westlife who performed at the Royal Variety Show back in 2003.
Sexy Snake Hips James Stone
52 year club singer and dad of 4, James Stone is auditioning to reach his ultimate dream. Once on stage, James tells the Judges his age to which gets a huge applause from the audience. He tells Simon that he is good enough to win the competition and starts singing I Just Want To Make Love To You – the audience love him but will the Judges?
At the end of James's performance, Piers tells James that he was great and that the audience clearly loved him. Amanda says James is a sexier version of Mick Jagger with snake hips. Simon says James has lots of confidence with a big voice but has picked up some bad habits from the clubs. Could this hinder any chance for James of going through to the next round?
A New West End Leading Lady?
Lydia May Hurley, 11, from Blackpool has come to the auditions with her dad Don and mum Nicola. Lydia May dreams of becoming a West End leading lady. Unfortunately whilst waiting in the wings the act before Lydia is going badly and the Judges' buzzers begin to scare her. It all gets too much and Lydia May nearly starts to cry, Ant & Dec comfort her and tell her to relax and take deep breaths, Lydia takes their advice and walks on stage. Lydia May tells Simon that her dream is to be in the West End, to which Amanda cheers. She then tells the Judges that she is going to perform Posh from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Can Lydia May hold her nerve and fulfil her dreams?
Up and down the country the youngsters are doing everything they can to join Lydia in the live shows and try and make their dreams come true, including 6 year old Teresa who blows the Judges and the audience away with her piano playing.
Hats off for the Queen
Susan Childs, 64, an ex Avon lady from Winchester thinks her poetry regarding the Queen's hat collection will earn her the Royal seal of approval. Once on stage Simon is puzzled, and as Susan starts her little ditty, using her hats, including a crown and a headscarf, Simon looks very confused, "I thought it was a bit, limited", "But I have hundreds of hats" explains Susan, "I think you are missing my point Susan" laughs Simon, "What's limited about it? It's not if you've got a lot of hats". It looks as if Susan and Simon are never going to agree on this point.
Big man big voiceTracy Lee Collins is a male 44 year old occupational therapy assistant for autistic adults by day and singer by night and has been involved in amateur dramatics for over 20 years, but Tracy is now hoping to leave behind his day job and start a new career as a professional singer.
Singing Think Twice by Celine Dion the Judges are initially unimpressed with Simon and Amanda not taking long to hit their buzzers, much to the displeasure of the audience, but as Tracy launches into the top range notes the audience, and Piers are swaying in the aisles and it is not long before they are all up on their feet.
Tracy may be through but he faces some strong competition from up and down the country, including retired IT teacher John Hagen, who plays animal bones, which amazingly impresses the judges enough that they put him through to the next round.
Also impressing the Judges are a Family acrobatic act, The Daredevils, who impressively leap backwards over a car and a junk percussion act, Bang On, whose act is definitely not rubbish.
The next Billy Elliot
Daniel Pirie, 13, is a dancer. Daniel has a good reason to get down at times, four years ago his single Mum Jackie had an accident that left her permanently disabled meaning she has to walk with a stick and sometimes use a wheelchair.
She used to be a professional dancer so it means her only contact with the dancing world is now through Daniel. His performance wins the whole theatre over and Amanda declares him the "Billy Elliot of this competition".
Runaway sheep
Mimi the dancing sheep and her owner Christine Hill are hoping they can impress the Judges with Mimi's dance moves, with Mimi dressed in a very attractive pink coat, Caroline explains that Mimi likes to dance to Leo Sayer. As the music kicks off Mimi is obviously not up performing and makes a bid for freedom trotting off stage with Ant & Dec chasing her down in the wings.
Giving Hoodies a good name
The last act tonight is dance group Flava from Cornwall, headed up by 18 year old Kyle Richardson and his choreographer Mum Fiona.
For Flava dancing means everything. The group wanted to share the good that has come out of it with the young people in their area. Dressed in their black hoodies the six strong team start their unique street dance routine. All the Judges are impressed with Amanda declaring them "the best we've seen" and Simon has a more serious point to make, "You have done one thing incredible, you've just made hoodies acceptable. I love that you have done it yourself, you are raw talent and you are as good as what I've seen in America. There a lot of people getting a hard time in this country at the moment, particularly young people and I just think you are an incredible representation of the good that is out there". So is Flava's dream of spreading their positive message through dance onto step closer to reality?
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