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Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent audition voted most iconic moment on ITV series beating Diversity and Stavros Flatley
Who can forget the chills they felt when Susan started singing? (Picture: Ken McKay/Rex/Shutterstock)
There are some Britain’s Got Talent moments that have gone down in TV history as true golden moments… and Susan Boyle’s audition on the show in 2009 is one of them.
This Sunday, television’s ultimate talent contest returns, with Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams back on the judging panel and Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly hosting once again after a two-year hiatus.
Ahead of its comeback, members of the public recently took part in a poll voting for which moments they believed to be the most iconic on the ITV series, and Susan’s stirring performance of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables was up there at the top.
Considering the clip of her first audition has over 23million views on YouTube, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it remains at the forefront of BGT fans’ minds 13 years later.
In second place came Diversity’s first audition, which took place during the same series that Susan placed as a runner-up.
While Susan may have won this poll, back then, Diversity were the ones who walked away with the grand prize, going on to showcase their talents at the Royal Variety Performance.
Diversity went on to win the show (Picture: Ken McKay/Rex/Shutterstockn)
Next up in third position is one of the most unexpected dance performances ever to appear on BGT, Stavros Flatley, consisting of father-son duo Demetrios and his son Michalakis ‘Lagi’ Andreas.
One of the most delightful animal acts ever to come out of BGT landed in fourth place, as fans will remember Ashleigh and her dog Pudsey performing a stellar routine to The Flintstones.
This father-son duo took the judges and viewers completely by surprise (Picture: Ken McKay/REX)
Fifth place on the poll went to Paul Potts, whose moving performance of Nessun Dorma led to him eventually winning the very first series of the series.
Dancer George Sampson, who won the second series, was in sixth place for his unique performance to Singing In The Rain, while Lost Voice Guy’s comedy routine was in seventh place on the poll.
In 2019, Paul appeared on America’s Got Talent: The Champions (Picture: ITV)
Dance duo Twist and Pulse placed in eighth position, followed by Colin Thackery’s rendition of Wind Beneath My Wings, which he dedicated to his late wife.
Finally, 10th position went to illusionist Darcy Oake, who blew the judges away incorporating doves into his first audition.
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The research, which involved a poll of 2,000 Brits, was commissioned by McVitie’s, the headline sponsor of BGT, with over a third of the participants saying they’d watched every season of the programme.
Here is the full list of top 10 most iconic moments on BGT as voted by the British public:
Diversity’s first audition (60%)
Stavros Flatley’s first audition (56%)
Ashleigh and top dog Pudsey’s BC-52 dance to The Flintstones, (50%)
Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma (47%)
George Sampson dancing in the rain (31%)
Lost Voice Guy’s comedy routine (30%)
Twist and Pulse’s energetic performance performance (24%)
Colin Thackery’s rendition of ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ (15%)
Illusionist Darcy Oake’s dove audition (12%)
Britain’s Got Talent returns on Sunday at 7.35pm on ITV.
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