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How The Media Fixed It For Ronan Parke To Be Famous: Britain’s Got Talent Fix Is A Fix

DID you know that Simon Cowell “FEARS” a “REVOLT” over BGT claims that the show is fixed for Ronan Parke to win? The Mail says Cowell is scared.

The fix is based on claims made by one anonymous source on a single blog post.

Those are the claims countered by lots of anonymous sources talking to newspaper, Simon Cowell (“[it’s all] complete and utter lies”) and, ultimately, by young Parke himself:

“I have never met Simon in my life. I’d love to, but I never have. I have been coached by a singing teacher in Norwich that we pay for. No one’s paid for our clothes or anything. It’s really silly… It’s just stupid that they’re making up such lies.”

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Posted: 4th, June 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)


Ronan Parke BGT Fix: Unnamed Sources Go Head To Head As Old Media Takes On The Internet

IS Britain’s Got Talent a fix – a mere vehicle to make Poringland, Norfolk, lad Ronan Parke a star? The show says “no”. One anonymous blogger says “yes”. Simon Cowell’s company issues a denial. The newspapers report the claims on their front pages.

The Daily Star yells

“BGT IN FIX CLAIM SHOCK”

Shock?

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Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


How Simon Cowell ‘Fixed It’ For Ronan Parke To Win Britain’s Got Talent: He ‘Signed’ In 2009

ROANAN Parke is the fey, coy, nice 12-year old singer who was told he’d be a huge star by Britain’s Got Talent judge Louis Walsh. Said Walsh:

Ronan Parke – remember that name. This kid is going to be a star.

Why would a grown man tell that to a child? The show relies on public votes and the judges’ preferences. There can be no guarantees. Can there?

Parke, who seems to have been professionally styled, is in the show’s final. Stardom is within his reach. The Sun says:

SINGING sensation Ronan Parke could make his first million by Christmas – after signing a six-figure deal for the Britain’s Got Talent Tour 2011. Ronan, 12, is also favourite to scoop the £100,000 prize in Saturday’s final after Simon Cowell called him the new Justin Bieber.

He tells the Star:

“I’m only 12 and thanks to Britain’s Got Talent I have been recognised and asked for pictures and autographs. But I don’t have a girlfriend and I’m quite happy singing.”

So. Is it a fix for Ronan Parke to win BGT? Does Parke have any famous connections?

The Parkes are close friends of the Gunn family, and Norwich City legend Bryan Gunn said yesterday the families were planning to get together to watch the show last night. He said: “A lot of the speculation in the press has been saying that the winner could come from one of the younger entries. Of course we all think it will be Ronan. He is always singing around the house at home and when the family go round to friends for lunch Ronan always gives us a medley of his favourite songs.” The former goalkeeper’s daughter Melissa helped Ronan to put together his application for Britain’s Got Talent, and Ronan’s older brother Declan is friends with Mr Gunn’s son Angus.

No great help there.

But what of the rumour that Parke was signed to Cowell’s label in 2009? A source claiming to be a Sony insider says Parke has been groomed for stardom. He is not the simple talented lad off the street. If you believe BMG records fixed it for Katie Waissel to get on the X Factor last year, you might believe this. The open letter goes like this:

For reasons which will become obvious, I can’t reveal my full identity. But let me just say that, I am an executive with Sony Music UK with many years experience in music management [sic]. My work involves close liasion with Simon Cowell’s SYCO company (specifically SYCO Music and SYCO TV) and, as a result, I have seen what goes on from the inside and this has left me increasingly uncomfortable about the integrity of Britain’s Got Talent and particularly the workings of SYCO.

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Posted: 2nd, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (8)


Britain’s Got Talent 2011 Week 2: Edward Reid, Razy And Finger Stuffing Michael McIntyre

BRITAIN’S Got Talent 2011 – Week 2: the World’s Weakest and Strongest Fingers; Razzy dances, Edward Reid claps, and Michael McIntyre stuffs and old man:

Edward Reid sings nursey rhymes to the tune of Leona Lewis’ Run. Britain hasn’t got talent-  it’s got Edwardian parlour games:

“I teach a group called the Nifty Fifties which are pensioners. I teach them drama, which is a fantastic class. I like working with people with special needs, they seem to have amazing personalities. Somehow they have no inhibitions, so all the classes are always funny and entertaining. I used to work in a day centre and i used to walk about singing all the time and someone said to me, ‘You’ve got a nice voice,’ and I’ve never heard that before.”

Elaine’s Weakest Finger:

“I’m over 21, I’m from Manchester and I go to college. I’m doing a cookery course, learning soup and sauces.”

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Posted: 23rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: Daily Mail Says Show Has Slumped All Over Its Front Page

ODD of the Daily Mail to highlight the apparent fact that “A MILLION VIEWERS SWTICH OFF BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT”.

TV reviewer Simon Cable (nominative determinism, readers) brings news that Britain’s Got Talent is no longer so popular by, er, telling Mail readers on the paper’s front page:

“It has been described as ‘a national obsession.”

It has. Simon Cable just did it on the front page of the Daily Mail.

According to ITV1 figures, the first show of the fifth series drew a peak audience of 10.9million on Saturday – 1.3million down on last year’s opening night.

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Posted: 18th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: God Makes David Hasselhoff Decorate Airplanes

BRITAIN ‘S Got Talent judge, the American Glenn Hoddle look alike David Hasselhoff, tells us that he wants to be in love:

“I want to be in love. I always try to make it last. I tried 16 years to make my last marriage work but it’s up to God, it really is. It’s not up to us, we are put in situations. If you are meant to be together it will work. I would get married again though, sure.”

Anorak loves the idea of God walking us up the asile, chosing a wedding dress, saying vows about being parted only by death, handing us a pint of creme de menthe and amaretto on the Stag night, and booking a honeymoon in Ibiza. For one thing, it reduces a lot of the stress of looking though brochures.

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Posted: 17th, April 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent 2011: Gay And Alan Cooper Are Winning With Stephen Hall

BRITAIN’S Got Talent is back. Glenn Hoddle look alike David Hasselhoff has taken Simon Cowell’s seat on the judging panel. To his right, fellow judge Amanda Holden appers to have only narrowly survived a tumble into the Botox vat Cowell left behind in his changing rooms.

But the stars of the show are not only the face surgeons but the likes of Gay and Alan Cooper, who performed a version of the Titanic soundtrack on hand bells.

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Posted: 16th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: Everyone Declared ‘The New Susan Boyle’

BRITAIN’S Got Talent is back on the nation’s screens. And that means it’s time to talk about the “new Susan Boyle“. Anorak has compiled a list of new Susan Boyles in the news:

Nick Clegg – Gerald Warner called him the “new Susan Boyle” (Telegraph)

Janey Cutler – She was the “new Susan Boyle” of 2010 (Everyone)

Michael Collins – He is the “new Susan Boyle” for 2011 STV, Metro

Causing a storm among the judges, he is later dubbed by Holden as the next Susan Boyle as she tries to explain why she wasn’t hooked from the moment she set eyes on him.

‘It’s like the Susan Boyle thing. You know when somebody walks on stage, you completely judge them as you see them and it’s always a surprise and it’s always a bad thing for us all to do but it’s human nature, isn’t it? You kind of just look at somebody and think about how they are physically rather than who they are.’

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Posted: 14th, April 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)


Simon Cowell Turned Down Chance To Watch A Couple Having Sex

IMAGINE the towering gloom and endless pools of unyielding hate that a man must hold within to think that his life was in desperate need of Simon Cowell, perched at the foot of your bed while you have sex with your wife.

This may sound like some terrible daydream, but according to the eerily toothed talent-show mogul, this is what happened when someone invited him to critique his skills in the sack.

Note, this wasn’t a cash offer to see Cowell joining in, rather, to simply stand over the coitus and tut repeatedly and chirruping “you smashed it”.

Cowell claims:

“He offered me $150k to criticise him bonking his wife”

“The crazy part of the story is I said no. It would have been a much more interesting story now if I’d accepted the offer.”

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Posted: 7th, April 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Sam Hollyman Rejects Britain’s Got Talent Publicly

SAM Hollyman, 15, will not win Britain’s Got Talent. The Stafford local rejected an invite to appear on the show when researchers saw his performance with Canadian star Michael Bublé at Birmingham’s NIA.

But surely BGT is the idea launch pad to embark on a meteoric career? It might be – so long as you sign the contract.

Says mum Paula:

“We had calls from various agents and were obviously thrilled when Britain’s Got Talent rang to ask Sam to audition. They sent through a very detailed contract which you have to sign before auditioning… He loves what he’s doing now, he does a weekly acoustic night, yet he wouldn’t be able to do any of that if he went on the show.”

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Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent 2011: Wendy Vanity

BRITAIN’S Got Talent 2011: Anorak’s exclusive look at the most talented unsung peoples in the country right now. Introducing Wendy Vainity:

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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: If You Want To Get A Head Get A Laminated Forehead

BRITAIN’S Got Talent is auditioning in The Opera House, Manchester. And all eyes were on the foreheads. Amanda Holden, Ant ‘n’ Dec and David Hasselhoff have faces that should make a huge-noggined alien from the planet Zorb feel right at home.

The aim seems to be to make the average looking – Holden; Ant ’n’ Dec; Hasselhoff (if you live in Malibu (pint of) everyone looks like him) – that little bit better than the performing hopefuls they can patronise and elevate to celebrity standard.

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Posted: 13th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


Jedward’s Dublin Pictures And Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai’s BGT Lament

WE caught up with Jedward in Dublin. John And Edward Grimes – the stars that epitomise all that is right and proper with the X Factor and such talent shows -were at a CD signing. John and Edward are exactly what UK showbiz deserves and demands. On the same day, Britain’s Got Talent’s Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai was talking about suing the show’s judges.

Ms Czikai, from Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, says he was not feleign well when she came to sing. She was buzzed off. She told us:

“I do have the ability to move people. People have cried when they have heard me sing.”

She calls the show “backdoor modern slavery“, guilty of “modern-day barbarism” and acts of “atrocity” against wannabe stars. The show’s layers say not so. And Jedward play on, setting out to prove that if you set people up for fall, you might gets squashed…

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Posted: 23rd, July 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)


Spelbound Break Britain’s Got Talent Records: Pictures

SPELBOUND wins Britain’s Got Talent and 13 members of the acrobatic gymnastics dance outfit split the £100,000 top prize. We caught up with Douglas Fordyce and the rest of Spelbound at a press conference at Sony headquarters in London. Yeah, Sony, wher Simon cOwell works. And Spelbound are now his. Says he:

“I’m very proud of you.”

While Cowell is relieved that all the hard hours in the gym have been worth it, we’ve got more facts.

* Britain’s Got Talent ended with a peak audience of 14.1 million last night, plunging from last year’s figure of 19.2 million.

* The event also attracted a huge television audience, with initial estimates suggesting almost 20 million people tuned in to see the ten acts battle it out for the title. If the figures are confirmed, it would mean the final was ITV1’s most popular show for almost five years.

In pictures:

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Alex Uttley of Britain's Got Talent winners Spelbound speaks to reporters during a press conference at Sony headquarters in London.

Posted: 6th, June 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)


The Pee Wee Herman Goat Win Britain’s Got Talent – We’re Spellbound

EAT your heart out Spelbound and chandi – Pee Wee Herman goat wins Britain’s Got Talent. Well, he should have.

The goat does impressions. He’s propably not even a goat..

He’s that good…

Posted: 6th, June 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Miley Cyrus Hates Shallow Pop, Appears On Britain’s Got Talent (Lesbian Kiss Pictures)

MILEY Cyrus was on Britain’s Got Talent. Miley was singing her song called Can’t Be Tamed.

That’s her pretending to kiss a female dancer.

That’s her dressed in fishnets and basque.

That’s her in the choreographed dance routine giving full throat to:

For those who don’t know me, I can get a bit crazy
Have to get my way, yep
24 hours a day
‘Cuz I’m hot like that
Every guy, everywhere just gives me mad attention
Like I’m under inspection,
I always get a ten
‘Cuz I’m built like that

Here’s the virginal Miley telling Billboard magazine:

“With anything-the clothes I wear or the way I want to look-I don’t plan it. Even with the video [for “Can’t Be Tamed”] I had the treatment, but beyond that, it was whatever comes. We didn’t have all the choreography set in stone because I didn’t want it to end up looking fake and polished. Everything in life has to come naturally or I feel like it’s just been done.”

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Posted: 4th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)


Britain’s Got Talent Full Report: Corey-Sean Is The Ladyboy Gaga

-Sean Williams is vying with them to be the UK’s lady Gaga. He’s on Britain’s Got Talent. He’s the 18-year-old Lady Gaga – and Beyonce – impersonator. And he’s looking for his mum:

“Finding my mum would be even better than winning the show – just to have my mum and someone who loves me.”

Corey-Sean has the name, the background story and the act. But Julie has the X factor. All hail Julie, this season’s Susan Boyle.

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Posted: 23rd, May 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)


Knives Are Out For Britain’s Got Talent’s Myztikal Youth

BRITAIN’S Got Talent introduces Myztikal, a bunch of dancers from South London. Because South London is full of dragons, the tabloid story must comply with the legend. So enjoy this from the Sun

SIMON Cowell didn’t scare Britain’s Got Talent favourites Myztikal – they have to dodge knife-wielding thugs every day.

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Posted: 10th, May 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: Justin Bieber, Susan Boyle, Connected, Harry Mondryk And Olivia

BRITAIN’S Got Talent – Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the TV talent show. It’s Newcastle. And its Olivia, Susan Boyle, Harry Mondryk, Clive And Claire, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber – and not Justin Bieber. It’s Connected.

So. Who will be the new Susan Boyle, singer of the best-selling album of 2009?

And do we need two of them? Will it be 13-year-old Harry Mondryk, who has now been on the show four times? Well… No.

Will it be singing schoolkid Olivia:

Judges on the show were wowed by a schoolgirl known only as Olivia, who gave a note perfect rendition of Sarah McLachlan’s ‘In The Arms Of An Angel’, earning her comparisons to Welsh child singing star Charlotte, who was dubbed the Voice of An Angel.

Says Boyle in the Mirror:

“When I look in the mirror I see that I brush up quite well. It’s a bit like a cygnet to a swan…Now, I see a sophisticated lady. Even though the outwardness has changed, inside I’m still the same, but now I’m a bit more refined in some ways.”

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Posted: 1st, May 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (11)


Britain’s Got Talent: Christopher Stone Is The Hairless Angel

BRITAIN’S Got Talent introduces Christopher Stone – the Hairless Angel; ChrisSto; The Signing Accountant; the one who wouldn’t shut the *** up about Maria.

By day Stone is a 28 year old accountant. By Saturday night telly Stone is a 28-year-old accountant in a beige jumper being kept waiting by Simon Cowell’s pursuit of good telly to live his dreams. Will he go through to the next round with the regurgitated Stevie Starr and the stripper with the burning rag?

And ChriSto:

“I’ve come to Britain’s Got Talent to audition today mainly from pressure from my parents, more than anything else. They’ve been telling me for years and years that I need to do something like this.”

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Posted: 24th, April 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (22)


Susan Boyle: The Woman I Was Born to Be And Nick Clegg

SUSAN Boyle Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Susan Boyle in the news:

The Sun’s Jane Moore tells her readers:

“Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is the Susan Boyle of politics.”

He’s going to come second and make millions?

Gerard Warner:

It was a re-run of Britain’s Got Talent, on the same television channel – with Nick Clegg in the role of Susan Boyle.

Boyle will sleep with “no more than 30” women?

The New York Mag says Boyle will tell her story in a book called The Woman I Was Born To Be:

“I’m writing this book to try to show that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and I hope it will benefit other people.”

Josh Duboff notes:

And if that is the kind of metaphor to be expected in the book, I think it’s safe to say that she is not going to surprise us with Faulker-like prose to match her Dion-like pipes.

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Posted: 21st, April 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)


Britain’s Got Talent Is For Mum And Dad’s Dead Ambitions

BRITAIN’S Got Talent was once a simple contest. Monarchists vied to perform for the Queen. And we tuned in. Then Susan Boyle failed to win and everyone wanted to be like her and, er, not win the show. The latest talent to wear the mantle of “Boyle Wannabe” is
Chloe Hickinbottom.

Boyle. Hinkinsbottom. When Ivor Catheter get t he guts to sing, we’ll have a Dickensian Gang Show.

Having crooned and warbled her way through White Cliffs of Dover, the song made famous by Vera Lynn, and thereby secured the granny vote, Hinkinbottom says:

“Now I’ve got through I can show off my voice more… I’d really like to be a professional singer like Mariah Carey or Susan Boyle.”

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Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent Puts Clocks Back

BRITAIN’S Got Talent is back and so is the hype. The Sun delivers the headline of the day as it screams:

“12m SHUN sunshine to see show return.”

Britain’s Got Talent kicked off last weekend on ITV1 at the sunny hour of 8pm.

Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)


Britain’s Got Talent: Tobias Mead’s Assault On Dance

CAN Chloe Hickinbottom (move over Humperdink) be this year’s Susan Boyle and come second in Britain’s Got Talent, beaten by a bunch of photogenic dances? The show that gives the biggest TV thumbs up to monarchy since Prince Edward played his joker (first price is a chance to perform for Her Maj at the Royal Variety Show) has also tossed up Tobias Mead. Toby will “BEAT HATE MOB”. So says the Daily Star.

How’s his background story coming along?

But an emotional Tobias revealed that just like Billy Elliot, he had to sacrifice a happy family life and a football career to pursue his dream of becoming a professional dancer – with his brother even threatening to beat him up.

Promising stuff. Says Tobias:

“My dancing basically ripped my family apart. It was the spark to a big flame that has meant I haven’t spoken to either of my two brothers since I was 18.”

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Posted: 18th, April 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Britain’s Got Talent: Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai Loges Discrimination Complaint

emma-amelia-pearl-czikaiBIG Bother ends and in the time it takes a goldfish to recite the Kings and Queens of England (with dates), we bring news of Britain’s Got Talent singer, Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai.

Emma – The Hairy Oyster – has filed a discrimination complaint against the show. You see, Emma has a condition that affects her ability to hear own singing voice. That’s Emma on the stage:

“I do have the ability to move people. People have cried when they have heard me sing.”

She sings You Raise Me Up. She sings one line of You Rise Me Up. Piers Morgan presses his gong. Simon Cowell presses his. Eyebrow wrangler Amanda Holden lets The Hairy Oyster sing a verse. And then she hits her gong.

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Posted: 30th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment