Britain's Got Talent 2009

JP Liz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/13/kelly-brook-to-judge-britains-got-talent

new judge Kelly Brook joining

starts in May

smares

Oh god i know i'll get addicted to watching this. I don't really like her,her voice annoys me. Don't know what she will be like as a judge probably afraid to say anything bad!

Shane10

just cowell adding some talent of his own to attract viewers id imagine. gonna be 4 of them now, pity he didnt get rid of that annoying holden. cant stand lookin at her.

ziedth

Ya I have a hatred of Holden and Morgan,

Really stop me enjoying the show. Kelly brooke will be Eye candy but Lets be fair the "Talent" of the judges bar Simon Cowell leaves alot to be desired.

Liam Byrne

ziedth wrote: »

Ya I have a hatred of Holden and Morgan,

Really stop me enjoying the show. Kelly brooke will be Eye candy but Lets be fair the "Talent" of the judges bar Simon Cowell leaves alot to be desired.

I disagree....from what I've seen of past years Cowell seems to have a predefined idea of what he's looking for (thinking of "the show", no doubt, or some future record deal that will make him money) while Morgan definitely seems to have an idea of whether someone is actually talented or not.

Still baseline TV, though not as bad or contrived as the X factor because of the option of having talent other than being a Mariah Carey / Westlife clone....

JP Liz

gone already thats fast

Kelly Brook has been axed as a judge on Britain's Got Talent after just six days in the job.
However, after reviewing tapes from the Manchester auditions over the weekend, the programme's producers decided that the show had become too "complicated" with four judges.
In a statement, Cowell, who created the show, said: "I have genuinely enjoyed working with Kelly, she is absolutely lovely and a complete professional. But its become clear the format doesn't support another judge and we will never add a fourth judge to the panel."
Production company Talkback Thames added: "Although Kelly brings a huge amount of warmth to the show and we've loved having her on board, the complications it adds to the filming process and format of the show means that unfortunately, and with huge regret, we have agreed with ITV not to proceed with a fourth judge."
According to The Mirror, the model and presenter is "stunned and very angry" about the decision.

smares

Glad she is gone should only be three judges anyway,if there was an act on and four judges had to buzz in to stop them we would be waiting all night!

Aidric

I'd have preferred if they'd given Holden the bullet, would have been nice to ogle at Kelly.

JP Liz

Starts back on tv this Saturday

live2thewire

terrible show. would they not just do a europe wide one, much better

Mr E

Moved to Reality TV.

smares

JP Liz wrote: »

Starts back on tv this Saturday

yay!:D

ProperDeadly

well first epidosde was on, what did everybody think?
i thought the boy in the family group was amazing, and the father and son dancers were hilarious!

Sharpshooter

They should have sent that lad in front of the judges on his own.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Simon doesn't suggest it at a later stage.

deisemum

I thought last night's show was one of the funniest yet

Stavros Flatley :D:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3g2tYelWY


and later on as Simon said OH MY GOD :D:D

one brave woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIaESNgrg4E

JP Liz

The fat Greek father and son Michael Flatleys were funny

live2thewire

chinas got talent better imo. absolute rubbish.

KoolKid

Cant remember their name, but that group of black dancers were amazing.

snubbleste

Susan Boyle was utterly suprising and had an inspired song choice, she better end up in the final!

Latchy

The Gene Kelly impersonator( waving his arms all over the place ) made me laugh

holly1

It was great last night!!!!!!!

jaffa20

koolkid wrote: »

Cant remember their name, but that group of black dancers were amazing.

Flawless Yeah, they were pretty good but Simon was a bit over dramatic with them in his judging.

Cina

Was good last night, but Flawless just stole the show, they're unbelievable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFR6QyVpi0

krudler

Problem with dance acts is they have no resale value, with singers Cowell can get a few hits out of them but dancers can win, perform at the royal thingy and then....what exactly? Has anyone heard of the kid who won last year since then? no doubt a job as backup dancers to pop acts beckons and they are great but in an age where acts are milked for all they're worth before the label drops them (see almost all previous xfactor winners) they need someone with a bit of mileage

deisemum

snubbleste wrote: »

Susan Boyle was utterly suprising and had an inspired song choice, she better end up in the final!

She was magnificent, a true talent and her voice should wipe the smirks off the face of the ugly girl at 1.24.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

My god. She was amazing. I especially love that song, and her version was amazing - but I would really like to hear it without the audience cheering in the background, so I can appreciate it better.

Elessar

krudler wrote: »

Has anyone heard of the kid who won last year since then?

He has his own single, numerous music videos, DVDs, promotional jobs and a cult following. Plenty of £££ to be made.

Susan Boyle's performance reminded me of this one from America's Got Talent. Just in the way the audience completely turns around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjoLEE56DIM

Usual American tear-jerking story at the beginning, but his performance is pretty amazing, especially when they went from booing to a standing ovation.

smares

JP Liz wrote: »

The fat Greek father and son Michael Flatleys were funny

+1 i thought they were hilarious but can't see them getting to far

Clare Bear

That's the reason I don't watch the American one, the audience are dickheads. But sure they're American, what do I expect!

Flawless stole the show. And Susan Boyle. Both brilliant. Fair fecks to her.

Lobelia Overhill

Susan Boyle was utterly astonishing, she looks like your Great Auntie Doris, but by gawd that voice!!

Stavros Flatley were the funniest ever.

snubbleste

I don't know about anyone else, but I can't tire of watching the Susan Boyle clip, one on youtube has been viewed 5.5 million times in four days

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Susan Boyle's performance reminded me of this one from America's Got Talent. Just in the way the audience completely turns around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjoLEE56DIM

Usual American tear-jerking story at the beginning, but his performance is pretty amazing, especially when they went from booing to a standing ovation.

the video sums up how utterly shíte the country are as a nation.. what a singer tho, good video.


susan boyle video is class aswell, def the biggest moment of her life i'd say..

deisemum

Demi Moore was moved to tears watching Susan Boyle sing.

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0415/britainsgottalent.html

regob

susan boyle was good shes not good, people just think shes better than she is because it was unexpected. flawless werent great either, watch a show in america called americas next dance crew or msaomething like that, they would wipe the floor of flawless

pinkenergy

Susan Boyle is the real deal.
She has a wonderful voice and I have compared her to Elaine Page and other such luminaries.
Of course there was the "shock"value. But that just annoys me as you should not judge somebody on their appearance and I never do.I really dont judge it came up on a course I was on once. Communication Degree to be honest but having said the lecturer did say that 90% of people do. So I guess Im in the minority.
Susan has a wonderfully powerful voice full of emotion and would bring most to tears.
Hope she wins.
Not some little kid who is 6 years old who sings something sweet. Im sick of this kind of attention on kids. Sure they are nice but they are taking away the prize from somebody more deserving. Anyway back on track Susan Boye to win for me.:eek::cool::P:D

snubbleste

Pfft, it does not matter if Susan wins the competition or not, she's already got a bright future

She declared she wanted to be a professional singer when asked by the judges what the dream was & once she let those dulcet notes loose, none of us needed to be told that her dream had just come true.

JP Liz

Susan Boyle is even a celeb now in the US - she is suppose to appear on Oprah - i dont think she even needs to win now

CuppaCocoa

Susan Boyle gave a passable performance. Her voice was ok but her timing was off and there were no dynamics in the piece. She belted her way through it. Definately a sympathy vote.

pinkenergy

I agree with you that her voice is enough in itself. Fortunately she is getting a lot of airplay on Youtube and on US tv. She has a wonderful voice and I dont know if your being naive but sometimes it helps to win also. Having said that all I wished her was well and winning would be terrific for her. it helped Paul Potts and it would further help her. What on earth is wrong with wishing somebody well. You need to get rid of some of your angst in other places and let the lady shine in every way. She deserves it.

holly1

She was great,but I hope she gets her eyebrows plucked and afew other things tidyed up(hair,shoes etc etc),she would scrub up very well.Do you think??

jaffa20

holly1 wrote: »

She was great,but I hope she gets her eyebrows plucked and afew other things tidyed up(hair,shoes etc etc),she would scrub up very well.Do you think??

Don't worry Simon will sort that out. He turns all his winners into plastic.

Mad_Max

Deleted User wrote: »

the video sums up how utterly shíte the country are as a nation.. what a singer tho, good video.


susan boyle video is class aswell, def the biggest moment of her life i'd say..

Jaysis what an audience of a**wipes. They were mocking him before he even sung a note. That guy deserves a million squids for singing through that.

Livvie

live2thewire wrote: »

chinas got talent better imo. absolute rubbish.

How can you say that?

A lot of the rubbish is intended to be there because people generally enjoy the really bad auditions.

But I wouldn't call Susan Boyle rubbish, nor Paul Potts, Signature and Faria Smith.

And the dance group from the first show, Flawless, were aptly named and were just amazing.

Livvie

Deleted User wrote: »

the video sums up how utterly shíte the country are as a nation.. what a singer tho, good video.

An audience full of idiots - what the hell was their problem??

And it was interesting that they used the Westlife version there, rather than Josh Groban's - bearing in mind that it was in the US.

padocon

Thought it was quite entertaining last night however on certain acts I would have taken Simon Cowel's side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsLDbp6MOyM

Shorten version start at 2:00

I also wonder if the women with the dog and the women with the bird were chasing their arm or just had a bad day?

Greentopia

lilybarlean wrote: »

Susan Boyle gave a passable performance. Her voice was ok but her timing was off and there were no dynamics in the piece. She belted her way through it. Definitely a sympathy vote.

I wouldn't call it a sympathy vote. There was definitely a big surprise that she could sing so well that meant she got a better reception than she might have done if she was a twenty-something barbie doll with a reasonable voice, which in it self I think is a rather disgraceful indictment on our society and how much most of us judge people based on their looks.
It's like they couldn't believe that a middle-aged woman who quite clearly doesn't feel the need to conform to how society thinks a woman should look could possibly have any gifts or talents looking as she does! :mad:
Why should it be such a huge shock that someone who would be deemed by society as unattractive has a talent?? (not aimed at you lilybarlean, I know you didn't say that, just throwing it out there;)) and I know it was a U.K. audience so I hope she wouldn't have gotten the disgraceful jeering and laughing from the audience if it was here. I hope anyway...
And the way the intro. was set up and edited to make us prejudge her and set her up as this mad cat lady spinster who was clearly only there for us to mock and ridicule when she got on stage was just awful.
She showed them though and good for her! I hope she wins.

Sure she belted it out but I think the quality of her voice was more than passable and she was pitch perfect. Plus she said she was nervous and had never sang in front of a large audience before, never mind on a T.V. show! Of course she needs some work with a voice coach to refine it but what amateur singers doesn't if they want to be a good professional singer?
That'll come later. The raw material is good and she undoubtedly has talent. I look forward to seeing more of her in the competition and wish her success. By all accounts she's a lovely lady who does a lot of charitable work in her local community and who's had a tough life. This is her time to show what she can do. I just hope she gets the right manager and agent that will look after her well. She can do better than Simon Cowell I reckon:rolleyes:

MR NINE

the first episode was very good but i thought the second one was quite disappointing. the saxophone player and the kid singing michael jackson were both good but they exaggerated how good they were imo. stavros flatley has definitely been the most entertaining act so far for me. however, that was largely due to the element of surprise involved and i dont see how they can improve their act in the semis.

with regards to susan boyle, it was a very good performance but her singing was a bit off at times and it certainly wasn't a perfect performance. i thought simon would have pointed out that she could have been better. Then again, as i said, it was a very good performance and lot better than most of us could ever do so credit where credits due.

xOxSinéadxOx

the 2nd one was **** alright. what was so great about the saxophone player? and the michael jackson was brilliant but it seemed staged? still amazing though

padocon

Why did simon stop the 12yr old from singing Valerie? He was good at both songs!

MR NINE

padocon wrote: »

Why did simon stop the 12yr old from singing Valerie? He was good at both songs!

i thought he was all over the place when he was singing valerie. simon got it spot on telling him to sing a different song.