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Diversity Wins Britain’s Got Talent!

Joelseah — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:27:03 +0000

Diversity is the winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2009! Personally thought that it was a brilliant performance from them, though i’ve seen some parts of their performance on other Youtube videos before.

For the record, Susan Boyle finished 2nd, and Saxophone performer Julian Smith finished 3rd. The rest of the finalists (in no particular order) are:

Stavros Flatley (Greek dance/ entertainers)
Two Grand (Grandfather and granddaughter singers)
Flawless (Dance group)
Shaheen Jafargholi (Singer)
Hollie Steel (Singer)
Shaun Smith (Singer)
Aidan Davis (Dancer)

Here’s the video of their performance.

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Britain’s Got Talent Semi Finals

Joelseah — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:13:15 +0000

The Britain’s Got Talent Semi Finals is now underway. Yesterday was the 3rd Semi Final, and it’ll continue to run daily (except today because of the European Champions League Final) until the 5th Semi Final. After that, the 10 finalists made up of 2 winners from each semi will compete in the final and the prize of $100,000 GBP and the opportunity to perform in front of the royal family.

Till now, there’s been no really major upsets. The more impressive performers from the auditions have all made it through to the finals, except for last night’s winner. Amazingly, Stavros Flatley qualified for the final as the outright winner of the 3rd Semi Final (By the way, public votes will determine the winner who qualifies immediately. One of the second and third place performers will then be picked by the judges to qualify for the final).

Having said that, though i was surprised that Stavros Flatley won their Semi Final, i actually felt that their act was pretty amusing and brings out the best of kinship (Maybe that’s why they won).

Here’s the video of their act: (Apologies for the slightly poor quality. All the good ones on Youtube had embedding disabled. So to watch more videos of Britain’s Got Talent acts, simply visit Youtube)

And for those of you who are interested, the other finalists so far are:

Semi Final 1 – Susan Boyle (Winner), Diversity (Judges’ choice)

Semi Final 2 – Flawless (Winner), Shaun Smith (Judges’ choice)

Semi Final 3 – Stavros Flatley (Winner), Shaheen Jafargholi (Judges’ choice)

Sue Son – Divided Opinions

Joelseah — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:20:37 +0000

Last week’s episode of Britain’s Got Talent served up some interesting talking point among netizens and people in the UK. The person in the middle of all these is Sue Son, a violinist.

Sue first entered the auditions with her best friend Janine, performing a semi classical act with Sue on violin and Janine on keyboard. Both of them are pretty talented individuals. However, the judges felt that the two of them don’t have the wow factor as a team, and offered Sue the opportunitity to re-audition as an individual (Apparently they preferred Sue over Janine).

After some initial hesitation, Sue decided to take up the offer (Simon Cowell didn’t help by insisting an answer from her on the spot). The moment Sue took up the offer, the camera went right to Janine, who looked visibly disappointed.

So that started the whole debate:

The anti Sue group feels that she should have stayed loyal to her friend and declined the offer. The pro Sue group feels that she was right to pursue her dream since the judges already ruled out her friend. Besides, if Janine is really Sue’s best friend, she should be wholeheartedly supporting Sue.

Anyway, if you’re wondering how good is Sue exactly, here’s the clip of her individual audition:

Another Diversity Dance Video

Joelseah — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:34:39 +0000

Here’s another dance video featuring Diversity. This is a performance in the Streetdance UK Championships. In case you have not watched the first video I posted, I suggest you check out the post on Britain’s Got Talent 2009 – Diversity first.

Britain’s Got Talent 2009 – Diversity

Joelseah — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:08:47 +0000

If you’ve been paying attention to what people are talking about recently, you might have heard a lot about Susan Boyle. Yup, she’s the auntie looking woman who shocked the whole of Britain with her singing abilities. The competition she was taking part in is one of my favourite shows – Britain’s Got Talent.

Those of you who attended my trainings (especially Singapore and Malaysia Nokia guys) will know I love to show videos from the competition in my trainings. Partly because of the entertainment value, and partly because of the inspirational value it can give – Normal everyday person who has a talent, puts in the hard work, and gets rewarded. (Think Paul Potts and George Sampson from seasons 1 and 2, as well as many others who got spotted)

Anyway, for this season’s audition, there are some other performers who have caught the eye besides Susan Boyle, I’ll be posting some of them in due time (yeah yeah.. still can’t kick the habit of showing people videos =p)

Here’s a dance act called Diversity. Excellent entertainment value, lotsa unexpected creative stuff.