Its the sixth week of Britain's Got Talent and this year we have seen more talent than you can shake a stick at! This week we are starting in London with the first outside act of the series! The first act were diving... from 25 metres above ground. Putting that into perspective, Olympic divers usually dive at 10 metres. A spectacular act that started with people jumping off diving boards from various heights, to finishing with the 25 metre dive and setting one of the divers on fire and diving into the water. Potentially, it might have been the most dangerous act to have ever graced the show. Just imagine if one of them had slipped, from 25 meters high! Ouch!
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| La Quebrada High Divers |
Next up it was Stevie Pink, a 42 year old illusionist, who decided to dress up like a pink twat. His levitation act failed to make a big impact initially on Alesha and Amanda who both buzzed the moment he put his glamorous assistant to sleep. However, as soon as he levitated the girl and spun her around and flew her about, the judges perked up and mouths in the room dropped. With the room stunned and the judges wondering how it was done, he went flying into the next round.
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| Stevie Pink |
Thanks to last year's winners Ashleigh and Pudsey, this year the competition saw lots of animal acts, but they were not necessarily good acts! First up was Patty the Donkey, an artist... Well, just a donkey that they stuck paintbrushes in the mouth expecting it to become Van Gogh... Instead, we got splodges of paint on a piece of paper. Next was Kimberly and her raccoon Melanie. A somewhat dog agility course for a raccoon which sadly did not impress the judges. We then saw The League of Extraordinary Groomers, who took a long time painting their dogs with the judges faces. And I can tell you it was a long time as I was in the audience for the atrocious act! We then got to see Jo and Rappaw, which is what I expect Ashleigh and Pudsey to be like in 50 years time, with Simon saying it's the worst dog act he has ever seen.
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| Kimberly and Melanie |
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| Jo and Rappaw |
So after all these dodgy animal acts we saw Joseph Hall, a dancer teacher who was coincidentally dancing. Quite a brave thing to be doing, not many people dance on their own on the show any more since the big dance acts have been popular. But, Joseph proved that people still enjoy it when someone dances on their own, perhaps it was his killer moves that put him through! A ventriloquist was up next and surprisingly the judges loved it! Perhaps it was because he was one of the first ventriloquists who was actually funny! But, stealing this segment of the show was The Band Of Voices who have all been backing singers for big names and they decided it was now the time to be in the spotlight, not at the back. In my opinion, I don't think their vocals were all that strong, but it was still a valiant effort. One of the group had already been on the X Factor and this was his second chance pass as they sung their way through to the next stage after an encore performance of God Save the Queen.
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| Band of Voices |
Next up was a montage of singers all who had chosen Alesha to impress and thought singing would gain there way to her heart. One of these featured was 16 year old Luciel Johns, who gave Alesha a cheeky wink, but sadly she realised he was old enough to be his mother so he was out of luck. Also we saw singer Maarty Broekman from the Netherlands. Inspired by ladies and time travel (?!), playing his weird keyboard guitar thing he sang a song called Back Door Lover, and no, it's not a song about anal sex! With his dodgy 80's synths and awful singing, he somehow made it through to the next round with only Simon being the one to buzz and say no to him. In my opinion, I think I now know what it would be like if I was to take hard drugs. Never again!
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| Luciel Johns |
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| Maarty Brokeman |
The final act of the evening was 29 year old Aliki Chrysochou who was once diagnosed with a brain disease that meant she had to learn how to speak, walk and generally learn everything again. Although she sang a song that I really hate now, she blew everyone in the audience away and also the judges with her operatic voice singing Evanescence's Bring Me To Life, which was somewhat a fitting song for what she had been through. With Amanda and Alesha in tears, Aliki received a deserved standing ovation fro the crowd and three of the judges. I believe that even if she does not go on to win the competition, she will still do well after the competition.
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| Aliki Chrysochou |
And that is all there is time for this week! Another week's gone by and we've seen lots of talent tonight. I for one can not wait for next week as it is the last week of auditions and time to find out who has got through to the semi finals. So I will see you then!
