Britain’s Got “Talent”?
Starting yesterday, and running all this week, sees the Semi Finals of Britain’s Got Talent, the ITV show to find an act for the Royal Variety Performance to show off their talent before the Queen.
This is another show that can be enhanced with the use of Twitter and the #bgt tag to have a conversation and last night amongst the popular trending terms were “bgt” “boyle” and “darth jackson” – three terms that may have bemused any international twitters.
“Boyle” referred to the now international star, Susan Boyle, famous for not being very good looking but being a reasonable singer. If you missed the story you could watch this video which will reveal all the details!
In fairness to her, she was one of the two actually talented acts on the show. The other being Diversity:
The rest varied in quality from a “cute” 10 year old, so the slightly mad Michael Jackson / Darth Vader combination to the utterly deranged Nick Hell and his massacistic tendencies live on ITV.
Exactly why any one would want to watch a madman with a chainsaw live on an entertainment programme is one question, how it got past the “health and safety” people at ITV is another.
It was interesting in the voting as well to see Amanda Holden pass the buck – given the choice of voting for the obviously talented Diversity, or a cute 10 year old who would have been out, she left it to Simon Cowell to give the sensible choice and make the little girl cry on prime time TV.
More talent through the rest of this week. Woo-hoo.
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