Even if you don't like Opera you will be impressed. Dammit I tear up every time I watch it.

Amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxTy7KIAaA

Yea he's amazing. It totally blew me away when I saw it on that show as they like to allow people to build themselves up only to crash and make themselves look complete fools. Needless to say he blew everyone away though.

He too me by surprise when I saw him perform. Fantastic voice, could win it

He does sound quite good, but whats really amazed me is how fast everyone in the world is talking about it driving home today from work I heard it on the ABC radio here in Australia they where discussing it and played the sound bite of his performance.

Why does the female judge look like she is having an orgasm around the 1.56 mark

Very good, took me by surprise...He sounds like me in my dreams.

It was amazing for me too, but digging deeper I found this:

Paul Potts (Don Carlos) is a relative new comer to Grand Opera after an apprenticeship in Gilbert and Sullivan in Bristol.. His claim to fame is his 1999 appearance on Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music. This was followed by singing for Bath Opera in Turandot as Prince of Persia and Herald. He has since performed with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and spent three months touring Northern Italy as a soloist, training under top teachers Mario Melani and Svetlana Sidrova. He has been invited back for a concert to be recorded and also for a masterclass with Luciano Pavarotti. Future plans include a summer tour with the RPO.

The same Paul Potts, or a cohincidence?

A coincidence, he works as a salesman in carphone warehouse, and this is the frist time he been able to broadcast his voice. Very talented, and should win it imo.

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Why does the female judge look like she is having an orgasm around the 1.56 mark

I thought that too, she is worth it though

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It was amazing for me too, but digging deeper I found this:

Paul Potts...This was followed by singing for Bath Opera in Turandot as Prince of Persia and Herald. ...

The same Paul Potts, or a cohincidence?

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A coincidence, he works as a salesman in carphone warehouse, and this is the frist time he been able to broadcast his voice.

I'm going to go with "The same Paul Potts". This page at Bath Opera's website has a photo of the "other" Paul Potts, and he looks uncannily like a slightly younger Paul Potts if you ask me.

Lol, that is definately him, they look exactly the same. *X-Files them music*

Actually, it does......

Looks like i stand corrected (said the man in the orthopdeic shoes)

I hope he gets lynched next time. God I hate the way my TV has been endlessly shitting out talent shows every time I turn it on lately - a few random killings would really spice them up.

Yeah, definately too many of these 'reality shows'. There was one earlier about some woman helping some shop owners how to improve business...and is it me or are there too many auction prgrams on in the morning??

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Lol, that is definately him, they look exactly the same. *X-Files them music*

It gets even more sinister!

Paul Potts, or ... Pol Pot!

Lol!! Very good

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It gets even more sinister!

Paul Potts, or ... Pol Pot!

You are good at the ould research

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You are good at the ould research

YA RLY. It takes a special investigative talent to type things into Google Images.

why does anyone believe that he could have developed such a voice without professional training anyway ?

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why does anyone believe that he could have developed such a voice without professional training anyway ?

Obviously I don't believe it. Instead, I believe that the public has been somewhat duped into thinking they have been presented an unknown talent who had no possibility to become famous before entering the show...
Or, to tell it with the words of the near-orgasmic female juror, a little lump of coal turning into a diamond. Those words sound quite damning now. For me they can all go to hell.

Well put and I agree, it all looks like a ruse.
A ruse that will be leaked to the media sooner or later.

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Well put and I agree, it all looks like a ruse.
A ruse that will be leaked to the media sooner or later.

It seems the media already know it, but they don't complain about some little facts being hidden from the public during the transmission, like a past professional singing career...

Apparently this is his competitor for the final round, Damon Scott: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VC9cHjUOIQ

Its funny how he talks about his confidence at the beginning of the clip and makes that 8.0 famous judge chick wet in 30 seconds.

So he's had training, so what? It's still amazing

And am I the only one who suddenly thinks Amanda Holden is rather attractive?

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am I the only one who suddenly thinks Amanda Holden is rather attractive?

She's shagged Les Dennis.