TV talent show unearths ‘a young Mick Hucknall’
A-level student and keen rugby player Shaun Smith, 17, from Lichfield, Staffordshire, sang Ain’t No Sunshine.
As all his rugby pals rose to their feet, judge Simon Cowell told him: “I genuinely wasn’t expecting that, you remind me of Mick Hucknall, but good looking.
“You’ve got a very authentic sounding voice.”
Judges are also treated to a high-pitched version of Nessun Dorma by 24-year-old hotel waiter Greg Pritchard from Usk, Monmouthshire.
Pritchard explained: “I am a male soprano.”
Piers Morgan said: “I have to say you did it brilliantly, it was a great act.”
And Cowell mused: “It was like a dog meowing, it just shouldn’t do that.
“But would I like a dog that meowed, yes I would – you puzzle me Greg.”
Merlin Cadogan from Bideford, Devon, hoped he had a death-defying act that would make him the “modern day Houdini”.
Cadogan placed a metal diving helmet on his head and his assistant tied his hands together with 10 metres of padlocked chains.
His helmet was filled to the brim with water, leaving him only minutes to release himself from the chains while juggling with fire, before running out of breath. The act “could have killed him” he claimed.
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