Britain’s Got Talent Betting 2009

There’s nothing us TV Betting Brits like more as a nation than getting behind an underdog with a sporting chance of upsetting the odds. In this case we’re not referring to anyone of an athletic build (the polar opposite in some instances), nor are we talking about individuals (or teams) with a particular talent for throwing something further than anyone else. Or running faster than the person next to them. Nope, we are of course eulogising about an altogether different demonstration of personal talent (the sort that beguiles a TV-obsessed nation and mobilises Britain's Got Talent betting 2009 fans), the sort that sets the subject of our collective fascination apart from other folk in life, yet as free bets practitioners offers us even more weekend entertainment.

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It’s hard to see beyond drab-housewife-turned-less-drab-housewife Susan Boyle in these early stages of the TV talent competition, echoed by the online bookies who on average are placing her chances of entertaining royalty at 10 – 11. 10-year old fellow songstress Hollie Steel looks a good bet at 6 – 1 across the markets, while Shaheen Jafargholi is 13 – 2. Otherwise at this juncture we find both contemporary dance acts Flawless and Diversity available at 10 – 1. Humble saxophonist Julian Smith is placed at 16 – 1 to walk away with the £100,000 prize money, whilst Greek father and son comi-dance ensemble Stavros Flatley are 40 – 1. The slightly unnerving Good Evans family can be backed at 66 – 1, or if Britain's Got Talent Betting 2009 fans are feeling incredibly optimistic, then why not be rash and pledge your support to 150 – 1 shot, DJ Talent.

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If Robbie Williams announces that he’s about to entertain you, then you know you’re in for a good night. Unfortunately by switching your TV on Saturday evening the same promise by a gaggle of would-be show-stoppers falls pretty wide of the mark. The best policy is to remember though that ‘entertainment’ – in the fullest sense of the word - means different things to different people, who all get their kicks from one thing or another.

Only they’re not judged by a stopwatch or how many more times they can do something faster and better than their immediate rivals. No, instead they come up against two of a crop of male celebrities we love to hate, and an ex Blind Date contestant who reduced a national treasure to tears on a reality show due to her little indiscretion. Yup, ITV1s Britain’s Got Talent has returned to our screen again, which means a judging panel comprising of Messrs Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, and the reformed scarlet woman that hordes of us have conversely taken to our collective bosoms, Amanda Holden.

Ably assisted again by those loveable Geordie scallywags Ant and Dec who remain constantly waiting in the wings with words of encouragement for the nerve-jangling contestants before and after they do their star turns. Which means week on week our Saturday evening’s entertainment is scheduled around the essential – and compulsive – viewing of ‘acts’ that sometimes even Peter Kay’s alter ego – Brian Potter - wouldn’t afford a second chance to be added to the bill at his fictitious, talent-devoid ‘Phoenix Club’ establishment.

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The nationwide search for the eventual 2009 winner is well under way already, as the audition stage of the series tours the country and is beamed back in to our homes. Aired at weekends – and dutifully showcasing an (thankfully) editing selection of would-be performers - all the hopefuls are single-mindedly focusing their efforts on the end of series big prize. Essentially a (captive) audience with HRH The Queen and a stage presence at this year’s Royal Variety Performance, along with a cheque for £100,000 once the fat lady’s warbled her last chord.

Speaking of which, the highlight (yes, there are often moments to savour that aren’t purely for comedic value) of the first of this year’s shows was the sincere and stout woman the media have dubbed the ‘Hairy Angel’. Susan Boyle – the spinster hailing from Scotland – blew the initially sneering judges and perplexed TV audiences away with her pitch-perfect rendition of Elaine Paige’s ‘I Dreamed a Dream, taken from the musical Les Miserables, reducing the waterworks-prone Amanda Holden to tears and moving Piers Morgan to previously un-chartered territory, signposted speechlessness. Which surely gets the thumbs up from millions of avid Britain's Got Talent Betting 2009 followers.

It wasn’t long before the next ‘big things’ were ‘discovered’ by the talent-spotting threesome in this, the third series of the ratings winning Saturday night show, with the occasional mega star(s) in the making getting a look in between DJ Talent, a frankly rubbish, supposedly record breaking Ferrero Rocher eater and a balance-less unicyclist.

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Also on the first show of the new series we were introduced to ‘Stavros Flatley and son’; a Greek father and son act who somehow managed to fuse (or confuse, depending on your understanding of either medium of dance) traditional Greek dancing with the famous Irish River dancing technique. And to much acclaim and applause it has to be said. Elsewhere and it was contemporary street dance troupe Flawless who had the judges and audience in raptures with their slick, upbeat moves, whilst strongman Manjit Singh defied the human body’s lung capacity to inflate – and go on to explode – a hot water bottle, shortly before pulling a vehicle across the stage with the power of his ear lobe.

And who could forget Fabia Carrera? Certainly not music mogul Simon Cowell (or perhaps the more eagle-eyed of Britain's Got Talent Betting 2009 enthusiasts) after the burlesque dancer with the Rubenesque figure completed her eye-popping performance that culminated in a wardrobe malfunction that Janet Jackson would have been proud of. And finally we should mention the modern day incarnation of the Von Trapp family who like nothing better than to sing at one another all day long. Performing under the name ‘Good Evans’, proud (yet sadly not muted) mum and dad helped on backing vocals as their two very young daughters and very talent son (Elliot) belted out the Jackson Five hit, ‘I’ll Be There’.

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During week two of the televised competition and the nation got their first glimpse of potential finalist Shaheen Jafargholi who wowed everyone in the audience and at home with his take on a Michael Jackson song. Not to be outdone on the Wacko Jacko theme, a moon-walking Darth Vadar strutted his stuff and declared (would be) star wars on the judging panel who were divided in the act’s appeal to say the least. Otherwise a drag artiste who appeared not to have skipped too many meals in life, the woeful Singing Souls and a hapless cocktail spinner/shaker failed to light up a pretty poor evening’s entertainment were it not for the unassuming music teacher, Julian Smith. Without doubt the stand out contestant he took everyone’s breath away with a haunting and accomplished piece of saxophone playing.

2009 Britain’s Got Talent Week Three Introduces Viewers To Ten-Year Old Singing Sensation, Hollie Steel

Week three was memorable if only for the fleeting glimpse of short-lived judging panel misfit, Kelly Brook struggling to carve a niche for herself in the midst of the battle of egos that is the Cowell-Morgan effect. Still, DJ Talent rapped nearly everyone into a frenzy of underwhelming by adding some jumbled, lyrically repressed words to a monotonous beat, while Claire Morton bravely ‘danced’ and ‘sung’ her way through her version of the iconic Fame routine. Only with the aid of a song sheet to divert the audience’s attentions away from her lack of co-ordination and tone deafness. Meanwhile Piers Morgan expressed derision at a gymnast who worked artistically choreographed wonders in a giant hamster wheel, only to be invited up to ‘give it a whirl’ himself. Which naturally enough he failed miserably at and was admirably forced to eat his words.

Thankfully – and before you started to gnaw your own arm in desperation – up stepped 10-year old Hollie Steel dressed in a tutu. Once the cute factor was out of the way as she went through some whimsical ballet motions you were struggling to see where this act was going. That’s until she opened her mouth and out came the angelically-orated words to ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’ from the musical My Fair Lady.

So to help Britain's Got Talent Betting 2009 fans to recap. We’ve experienced the amazingly good, the inescapable bad and the downright ugly on the Saturday night stage, as Britain’s looking to make their lucky break grab their moment in the spotlight. Celebrated artist Andy Warhol once coined the expression that ‘everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’ as he acknowledged the fickle nature and immediacy of the fame game, and everyone’s longing for their personal slice of the celebrity cake as far back as 1968. Almost prophetic, in the intervening years the mass media has made Warhol’s acute foresight a reality, yet thankfully in 2009 we’re subjected to roughly 5 minutes for ordinary peoples dreams to be made or broken in front of an audience of millions.