I've just watched BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT for the first time. What a fantastic show! Some of these talent shows can be quite cruel, but this one seemed different. The audience seemed to be willing each performer to perform well. I did wonder whether Amanda Holden or Piers Morgan were right as judges but in the end they won me round. I thought the noose thing was a bit freaky and the 80 year old tap dancer was a waste of time, but all the others really impressed me. I wish I had seen the other episodes now.Incidentally, poor old Dec (or is it Ant?) seems to be losing his hair faster than I am!
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By the way, the Ross Noble lookalike has been evicted from the Big Brother house (popular culture slot).
I saw a little boy twirl a baton last week on this show and it brought tears to my eyes! Sad? Maybe! :)
I haven't watched any of the episodes as such, but Paul Potts' performance has made it over the Atlantic and back in a matter of a couple of days - quite simply one of the great YouTube moments.
They are both losing their hair!
Given the fact that my local paper is now attacking my watching of reality TV as some sort of intellectual deficit on my part, perhaps I shouldn't offer my views on this show! ;-)
http://kerroncross.blogspot.com/2007/06/whilst-we-are-on-big-brother.html
Kerron, you fatuous little lefty appeaser. Your local paper is right! You have the intellect of a gnat.
Why are you wasting your time coming here doing your dance of the seven veils when there is a war on! Why are you blathering on about Big Brother? Who do you think you are, Davina McCall!?
Hey! come on Iain.
Mr. Reeves, the tap dancer, was talent personified.
That man can really cut a rug.
Come to think of it. If you ask him nicely he may cut one for you.
That fellow who sang Nessum Dorma (don't know the correct spelling) - but wasn't he on Michael Barrymore five or six years ago?
And didn't he get a huge round of applause, with people with tears in their eyes at the talent of this young (as was) naif?
I think I saw the show before I left England, and I'm pretty certain it was the same man. And he had bad teeth and a humble attitude.
I could be wrong, and he's a bit fatter now. But I particularly noted him at the time because there was something not quite right ...
It's a strange thing to remember, but it stuck in my mind back then as probably fake. And then I see what looks like the same humble working class man in a badly fitting suit belting out the same number.
I'd be glad to be corrected if I'm wrong. Am deeply ashamed of watching Michael Barrymore.
Iain, I am going to take a leave of absence from your blog.
Anonymous 12:01 wrote, as me, the plangent:Kerron, you fatuous little lefty appeaser. Your local paper is right! You have the intellect of a gnat.
"Why are you wasting your time coming here doing your dance of the seven veils when there is a war on! Why are you blathering on about Big Brother? Who do you think you are, Davina McCall!?
I have never seen Big Brother (and I even resent the squatting on the title) in my life. I don't know who or what Davina McCall is or who or what Kerron is or what his/her local paper is.
Some people need to get out - of the country - more, but I can't stand the hatred and vivaparous nature of the commenters on this blog. Like water, they've found their own level, that level being Guido Fawkes.
Iain - does it mean that, if Verity has removed herself from commenting on your blog, I can come back? I've had to invent at least fifteen new identities to make comments without her knowing who I am.
But hang on... who is she - or he? She says she lives in Mexico and has very strong feelings about, well, anybody who doesn't agree with her/him. You don't think it could be.... Gordo?
There's a thought.
Iain, I watched Piers Moron on "America's got Talent" when I was over there the pond a few months back. He was far crueller than Simon Cowell could ever be and played his "English accent=superior" card to the full, to the great annoyance of many I imagine.
Anything with that swine in is instantly degraded beyond belief. I don't care if Simon Cowell produces it. I don't care whether it does highlight the amazing creative diversity one should automatically expect of British society. Having Moron in is just wrong, sorry.
Verity I agree, if people post as other identities it makes it all pointless. Anon 12.30 , whoever you are ,I daresay you think that is funny but it is really really profoundly boring. Please don`t do it ,
Apart from anything else, you out that rather well and you might want to take the credit. Mr. Cross is not exactly the brightest tool in the box, but I’m sure he has a purpose in god`s design.. This is such point of faith with me that I often intone the mantra “God knows what the point of Kerron Cross is “.
.Its a way of inhabiting the mystery of life
There was an article in the Telegraph yesterday on this show Iain .Personally I don’t watch soaps or reality shows except the audition ones but I love those. If you read about the lives of late Victorians or Edwardian , it is always striking how differently they view entertainment having none piped in. Music hall , am dram , and a lost world of creativity flourished . Its odd to think how the thousands of performers have left nothing of their moment. These programmes strike me as in that tradition. I don`t bother much myself but the Maria and Joseph auditions were super.
Paul Potts performed in Barrymore’s ‘My Kind Of Music’ in 1999. I believe he was a semi finalist and the money the won from the show went on attending various training courses in Italy - including swimming lessons.
Prolefeed; ffs.
Agree, Iain, it's a good programme. I adore Siomon Cowell!
My hunch is that the 11 year-old girl ("Bessy"?) will win it.
The guy who appeared on Barrymore in 1999 has a wonderful voice. Suspect, though, he won't get anywhere unless he fixes his teeth and is given a total makeover.
Iain, another post of drivel - most of us don't watch this show so don't have a clue what you are on about.
And many of us don't even have a tv so don't make the assumption that all of us will want to read tv reviews - we come here for sleaze, gossip and more sleaze..
Iain - why don't you want to register users on your site? Wouldn't that help to stop bogus comments?
What an amazing performace by Paul Potts - what a find! Surely they could have found a better quality of judge though.
http://glamorganshire.blogspot.com
Ant is not losing his hair, he is growing his forehead in preparation for a role in the next series of Dr. Who.
You heard it here first.
Paul Potts is really a striking talent and, yes, the toast of YouTube. He's better than we see here headlining at the opera, and it is inspiring to see someone who is that confident in his art still humble.
But on one thing we must all agree, whether you're rooting for Potts or for that little girl Conny: Simon Cowell is one sexy bitch! I think I'll have to start checking YouTube more often.
PS: direct your ire towards newmania; it was he who convinced me to try to get back on this technologically borked blog.
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