Britain's Got Talent / Editor / 01 May 2009 / Leave a comment

Mike Norman reviews the latest set of eye-catchers to come off the ITV conveyor belt.

C'mon Betfairians, let me ere yer sing: "I say Britain, you say Talent, Britain's Got Talent it's the DJ Talent".

If at this point you're thinking I'm the biggest, and saddest, Britain's Got Talent nut out there then you'd be wrong.... I'm the second biggest and saddest.... some way behind our latest national delusion Anthony Ghosh, aka DJ Talent (pictured).

Ghosh, 30, bemused the judges during his Manchester audition with his self (not so cleverly) written rap song Britain's Got Talent. Displaying his 28 gold teeth and his many chav chains, DJ Talent belted out his rap song and had the audience, Ant & Dec, and Piers Morgan especially jigging along in delight.

The winner of BGT gets to perform in front of the queen, so unless Simon Cowell is prepared to have his head ceremonially removed then DJ Talent won't win. But you can bet your last bean that Cowell (who guided Zig & Zag and Robson & Jerome to chart success remember) will make even more gold out of DJ Talent.

Whilst Susan Boyle remains the subject of 99% of BGT column inches (and available to back at [2.08] to be the overall winner), there have been some interesting acts to emerge in the two audition shows that have been screened since I last wrote.

Following on from dance group Flawless in show one, Diversity emerged as another extremely talented group of dancers last Saturday. The visual impression that they left was incredible, using a lot of props, demonstrating fantastic choreography, and by using kids as well as adults, showing a lot of... well ...diversity. It's a tough call to say who will go the furthest in the competition but I have a feeling that only one of these great dance acts will make the final - my money would be on Diversity at this stage.

Of the latest crop of singers to be shown, it was 12 year-old Shaheen Jafargholi and 10 year-old Hollie Steel who unquestionably stood out.

Jafargholi (I'm reluctant to say that he sounds like a goalkeeper that at some point lost his testicles, but there, I've said it) had an inauspicious start to his audition, singing the Amy Winehouse hit Valerie before the famous Cowell hand gesture (signaling him to stop) went up. He then went on to belt out an early Michael Jackson song (Who's Loving You) and sounded like a star. It all looked like a bit of a set-up if you ask me, but still, the end result was a young boy with an incredibly powerful voice.

Much the same could be said about young Hollie, but she went from an average dancing ballerina to a fantastic singer as soon as Cowell went to press his buzzer.... quite amazing really!

It's pretty obvious why the public love dancers and singers - and why one of these two types of acts will win Britain's Got Talent. The audience can relate to the song or dance and the performances can vary from day to day, whereas you can only stomach so much of a rabbit being pulled from a hat or 12 swords being juggled in the air.

Still, the variety that is shown on Britain's Got Talent is exceptional, and it won't be long now before we can get our teeth into betting on the live TV shows - so stay tuned.