Britains Got Talent 2010

Ronan Parke and Out of the Blue Step Up As Contenders

This weeks episode of Britain’s Got Talent focused on the London auditions and thankfully there was some real talent on show. Ronan Parke stole the show but more on him later. Louis Walsh was in this week for the Hoff who had a prior engagement. I think Louis just sits by the phone waiting for these gigs to come up.

Seven year old Oliva Binfield kicked off this weeks show with a poem. The twist was that she went off stage and came back on with Lucy the snake wrapped around her neck. I mean, literally wrapped around her neck the audience were getting worried that it was trying to choke her. The poem was nice enough. It was about endangered animals with some BGT tie ins. She got a standing ovation and got through to the next round. She plans to be a zoologist when she grows up.

TKD Remix followed that, they were three Asian guys who did some Tae Kwon Do moves to the Mortal Kombat music. Behind the stage, Ant smashed a piece of wood in two with his big forehead. What a shock he could do that with a forehead that size…Anyway, the reason I pointed out that these guys were Asian was that it seems impossible for an act to come on and not do some Bollywood dancing soundtracked by Punjabi MC. Of course after they smashed up some wood they went straight into the Bollywood routine. I didn’t like it at all and neither did Michael. The other two judges put these guys through though.

Anthony Wait was up next. My other half is convinced he was on Come Dine With Me can anyone confirm? He claimed to be an art teacher and suggested that his act was to paint a picture. Some really camp disco music started to play, he took his trousers off and then a few pairs of underwear and then started to paint a picture on the floor. By the time he’d bared his bum to the audience all the judges had buzzed him out and had to shuffle off the stage.

Then we had the weird act interlude. Darth Dongle and the Princess certainly fit into that category. The princess was a hairdresser and the guy in the Darth Vader suit was a professional wrestler. It only got weirder when the act started. They did some silly dance routine and got buzzed off.

Tim Carr was the next weird act wearing an awful yellow checked shirt. He finger clicked along to music that sounded like it was from Deliverance. He didn’t get through.

Then we had the Underground Dance Company who were dressed up like Edward Scissorhands. They danced around to some Techno music and Louis seemed to like them but I have no idea if they got through or not. Thanks ITV.

Herbie Armstrong was next up and we were told about his back story of being a session musician and never being in the limelight. He started singing one of his own songs and Amanda Holden stopped him much to the disgust of everyone in the room. She asked him to sing a song everyone was familiar with so he did. It went over well and he got through. I thought it was pretty average.

Then to highlight just how bad this years talent us Tracey Moran got through. Tracey is an aircraft cleaner and came out to do a disco dance routine including the splits. She spent most of the time pulling her trousers back up to hide her belly. Throughout all this a strange thing happened. She managed to endear herself to the crowd and the judges for being a trier. I guess everyone loves a trier.

Finally, we got on to some real talent. Out of the Blue were a group of posh boys from Oxford Uni who were going to do a bit of Acapella singing for us. They started off with some Lady Gaga and then went into a bit of Justin Timberlake. The mash up of the traditional style with the modern day pop song worked and everyone loved it most of all the judges. The easily got through to the next round.

Things got better when Ronan Parke came on to the stage. He looked like a mini Justin Bieber and sang his heart out with Michael Buble’s Feeling Good. He has a great range and control over his voice and surprised everyone with the power. He was exceptionally nervous but it didn’t show in his singing. At the end he broke down in tears but he got through to the next round. Ronan Parke has to be the best I’ve seen in the competition so far.

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