Britain's Got Talent

[Piggymon]

Much preferred him over Connie but still a bit disappointed a singer got through :/

America's got talent next week - that should be amusing

[Haly]

Originally Posted by kitten_caboodle

Well to be fair he has an awesome voice.....

Can you believe it Jen?? You know a celeb!!

Quick!! There's a job going at CarPhone Warehouse!

I know
And as an added bonus it means my **** ex area manager now has another manager position to fill as Pol Pott will be off. He already had 2 anyway and was struggling to fill em. Mwahaha

I'm pleased he won He's off to fame and fortune, even if he has no personality at all

Oh and those kids were very annoying and not overly great imo.

[Admiral Huddy]

Deserved victory for Paul and Opera in general.


I did want him to win although quitely I really enjoyed Connie and the Monkey boy.

Originally Posted by Piggymon

Much preferred him over Connie but still a bit disappointed a singer got through :/

Not just any singer.. Story telling with passion!

[Davey_Pitch]

Originally Posted by Haly

I know
And as an added bonus it means my **** ex area manager now has another manager position to fill as Pol Pott will be off. He already had 2 anyway and was struggling to fill em. Mwahaha

I'm pleased he won He's off to fame and fortune, even if he has no personality at all

Oh and those kids were very annoying and not overly great imo.

Does that mean a job for you then?

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Davey_Pitch

Does that mean a job for you then?

I'll see what the situation is when I'm there later in the week But I doubt it, as it's a manager's position, I'll have to see who goes up for it and then whether I could replace them as a sales bod.
Would be the icing on the cake though

[Garp]

Okay, I managed to avoid the entire competition... but I did just see little Connie doing Somewhere Over The Rainbow and I was impressed. I think she's pushing her voice a little tonally to make it more adult like, but irrespective of that for a 6 year old to be pitch perfect unaccompanied is rare.

And..uhh.. yeah, Paul has an amazing voice. I presume there has been some kind of formal training behind it? If not its unusual for someone to have that level of control and projection through natural talent alone!

[Haly]

According to the ITV site profile:

Paul first sang opera at the age of 28 for a karaoke competition where he dressed up as Pavarotti.

He went on to perform in Barrymore’s My Kind Of Music (1999). The money he won from the show (£8000) along with his savings was spent on attending various training courses in Italy.

From his Italian opera class he was selected to sing in a master class for Pavarotti and Katia Ricciarelli – who he says were very impressed. Paul reckons he’s spent £20,000 in total to get to where he is today.

Paul has performed in four semi professional operas in the UK and some concerts. His proudest performance was with the philharmonic orchestra in a concert in front of 15, 000 people.

After having appendicitis doctors discovered a benign tumour that was removed. Two weeks after the operation he was back on stage.

A motorbike accident in 2003, in which he broke his collar bone, kept him away from performing and he got left out of the opera circles.

Since his illness, Paul has struggled with money and has never reached his potential, and this is why he has chosen to enter Britain’s Got Talent.

[semi-pro waster]

Originally Posted by Haly

According to the ITV site profile:

Interesting when compared to what

Originally Posted by popbitch says

Ah, how Britain loves an underdog. Opera singing Paul Potts becomes a national TV star thanks to his back story of being a bullied phone salesman with a lack of confidence. Residents of Eastville, Bristol, were most surprised at his TV billing, as Potts has been a prominent local politician, confident enough to be elected a Lib-Dem Councillor in 1999. Potts told TV judges that he'd spent several months at opera school in Italy in 2000, which must have impressed the constituents who thought they'd voted for someone to represent their interests in Bristol. This plucky newcomer had also previously appeared on Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music, sung with Bath Opera and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and performed as soloist all over Northern Italy.

Dunno who is right but seems a bit suspect on the face of it.

[Haly]

Who knows then
I saw something in the Observer about how he was being misreported in some places and I think it was saying he had limited experience, but I didn't read a huge deal admittedly.
Having met him though, I wouldn't say he had much confidence in social situations, work situations probably, but definitely not in social situations.
Too many situations there

[Haly]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7276741.stm
Bloody hell.

I WON'T be seeing that before anyone asks