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General reply: Because they set her up as this weeks nutter then pulled the rug - that's all. It's not a complicated tick and getting all huffy about this happening on a show essentially about putting mentally ill people on public display is a little crass in itself.
 
electrogirl said:
What's PC about that? I just think it's really weird that they would be sooooooooooooooo shocked and moved by a middle aged woman singing well?
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Sorry, please let me know what the correct attitude is to take about a 50 year old shut in declares her wish to be the next Elaine Page on TV. Rub my chin and have no expectations?
 
electrogirl said:
Yes! Thank you! See what I said above ^^^^

When Amanda said 'tbh, I think everyone was against you to begin with..'

Why? Seriously, why would they be?
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Because she waddled on, looking like she'd just taken off her housecoat, put her best dress on but what everyone was waiting for was something akin to a cat being strangled as usually happens

But wasnt she brilliant???
 
to be fair she did look like a bit of a slobby mess when she walked out, an yer well i was fuckin surprised to say the least

the brief clip towards the start, max beecher contortionist, i went to tae kwon-do lessons with him a couple years ago which was a spin :p

n were that guy wudnt leave, i was jus waiting for somebody to turn the music back on lol
 
butchersapron said:
Sorry, please let me know what the correct attitude is to take about a 50 year old shut in declares her wish to be the next Elaine Page on TV. Rub my chin and have no expectations?
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It wasn't that they were surprised, it was that they banged on about it for about 10 minutes afterwards, claiming that the audeince were 'probably against her' and soooo moved. by it.

And she wasn't even that good.
 
n also whats talented about getting ur flabby breasts out on telly, dont they already have a show for this ---- big brother?? fail
 
My friends daughter auditioned for this, we arent sure if they will show her because she didnt get a yes but is very talented so she isnt in the awful category either!
 
electrogirl said:
It wasn't that they were surprised, it was that they banged on about it for about 10 minutes afterwards, claiming that the audeince were 'probably against her' and soooo moved. by it.

And she wasn't even that good.
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I thought she was good. She hit a few duff notes towards the end, but I'm assuming she is completely untrained, so that's not bad.
 
Not seen it before but, in terms of Saturday evening light/family entertainment, I thought it worked very well. Kind of the (old school) village hall talent contest writ large, and without Uncle Stan playing the spoons.

Some acts see it as their big chance, others as a laugh - as long as everyone knows the tv is there to take the piss as well as applaud all's well, init?
 
Badger Kitten said:
Flawless were extremely great, the dancing Greek dad/son act were hilarious, and reaction to that lady singing the Les Mis song was crass; why shouldn't a middle aged woman be able to belt out a show tune? :rolleyes::mad:
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i think it was because she was set up to be one of the dumb/freak acts of the night - cos they always have them on BGT don't they...so we can point and laugh. i bet Simon probably knew she could sing well. so much of that kind of stuff on BGT is staged i reckon.

she had a lovely unusual kind of old fashioned voice :) and admit i was suckered too, cos i thought she would probably be one of their 'awful' acts (the ones who appear in BGT's 'freak show' at the final).
 
foo said:
i think it was because she was set up to be one of the dumb/freak acts of the night - cos they always have them on BGT don't they...so we can point and laugh. i bet Simon probably knew she could sing well. so much of that kind of stuff on BGT is staged i reckon.

she had a lovely unusual kind of old fashioned voice :) and admit i was suckered too, cos i thought she would probably be one of their 'awful' acts (the ones who appear in BGT's 'freak show' at the final).
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I think if people are honest this is waht a lot of them expected. When she was being interviewed before and she said she was going to sing, I said "please don't" and asked mrs27 to turn over. I dont think its right that they put the really awful acts on tv as its humiliating, although the people concerned probably love it, and I was expecting her to be one of the awful acts!
 
it wasn't an exceptional voice by any means. If she'd walked on looking like, I dunno, Celine Dion, she certainly wouldn't have got a standing ovation. It was the shock factor that got her through. Wonder if they'll style her if she gets to the finals, give her hair a decent colour & cut and shape her eyebrows.

I cried with laughter at the woman who got her norks out, once I worked out that she didn't actually have Union Jacks glued to her nips :oops: apparently she had little red things with tassles on the end, one of them fell off and that's why Ant offered to cover it up with her hat.

As for the rest, Flawless were amazing, you could see how much effort they'd put into rehearsing as they were step-perfect. The Greek guy and his son were good fun but once you've got over the surprise there's not much of an act there.
 
Miss Potter said:
it wasn't an exceptional voice by any means. If she'd walked on looking like, I dunno, Celine Dion, she certainly wouldn't have got a standing ovation. It was the shock factor that got her through. Wonder if they'll style her if she gets to the finals, give her hair a decent colour & cut and shape her eyebrows.
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without a doubt!
 
Sorry, but it was all a bit Elephant Man reciting poetry, which is the sort of Victorian Freak Show ideal they'll eventually get to.
 
I don't know if I can handle it this year tbh, I turned off halfway through. The uplifting music and sad stories make me sick. Maybe I was in a bad mood last night.

It's a shame cos I love shit like this, especially when they discover things like HOOP LA LA! :cool:
 
Apparently they're going to do fewer sob stories this year, following Peter Kay's take on it for that talent show spoof thing he did. Can't remember what daft name he called it.
I'm no fan of Kay but if there is a reduction in the "I've 'ad it dedd tuff, me." theme in shows like this, I'll be delighted.

I'm always more interested in the acts they only show snippets of, in the early shows, but who we see getting through. That lad who sang in Spanish, for instance. A bit more of him and a lot less of the failed chocolate scoffer would have been more entertaining to me.
 
Geri said:
I thought she was good. She hit a few duff notes towards the end, but I'm assuming she is completely untrained, so that's not bad.
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I reckon she does a bit of amateur singing.

Btw, I was never surprised: the use of the music and spiel before she was introduced gave the game away.
 
I don't know much about this type of show but that Scottish woman seemed yer typical singing ugy duckling cliche - old or fat or ugly or disabled, if they can sing everyone gets weepy. Perfect family entertainment.
 
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