Maureen:   Here Here for your comment.  The criteria I used to judge the finalists was would I pay to see any of them perform.  The answer is yes to only Susan Boyle.  The others are acts i would not ever go to see for free.   Ken

Erm... Where were the tears... There is no way any of the others would have got through by sobbing and......... cough..*crying*..cough...

I do not kow who is coaching the singers on this show, but surely they can here that they are singing in keys that are out of the range. These are kids and even the young lad tonight Shaheen was sounding airy after he had finished when speaking to Ant & Dec and that is because his vocal chords are swollen to hell with belt singing. Surley anyone ...

Here we go again, another total stitch up from the Simon Cowell gravy train ! Shaheen Jafargholi stopped halfway through his  performance and asked if he could sing something else by a smug looking Cowell. It just so happened that he just happened to have a second CD backing track which was ready and waiting to go !  And predictably the ...

Today I wrote a piece on Susan Boyle and why her sudden celebrity is shameful to us as a society. http://ethiopian-adoption-journey.blogspot.com/ . What is becoming of us, that we expect a person to fail based on their looks and the are sooo surprised when she doesn't? I've given it a lot of thought and think I've come up with some answers. Come ...