Eurovision song contest 2021

 Wow, I’m so glad Italy won this time, with Maneskin, I like them a lot and I hope they’ll stay together for a long time because too often groups break up because they want personal fame or something, but when something works like this it should not be broken. I also read that they write their own songs, but can’t find anywhere who writes what, so I hope that they all write something, they all make their contribution to the song, which means that they wouldn’t be that good if they decided to go separately. Also, being a group is much cooler than a single singer or single musician - musicians don’t often get the recognition they deserve from the great public because it’s more difficult to understand for those who don’t know about it (I honestly don’t know if I could tell a good enough musician from a great one or an extraordinary one, I don’t think so. Maybe that’s why I find musicians so cool.) 

Anyway, bands have something more, just think about Metallica or Red hot chilli peppers.

It was annoying to read all the tweets spreading hate, saying that the singer was doing drugs, I mean, come on, he only dropped his head on the table for half a second, and they were surrounded like people from every angle, both the entire Italian delegation and all the others delegations, plus cameras everywhere, live on eurovision, it was such an absurd thing to say that they only showed how hateful and sore losers they were. It was despicable, really. 

I like Maneskin a lot, I like the singer’s voice, the music they write together, I liked all the songs of theirs that I know, and I like everyone in the band, and I’m happy they won. 

Other than them, I liked Albania a lot, and then Ukraine, France and Russia and Portugal. And Finland were bloody cool, I liked them a lot, great. The French singer was also very very pretty. At least her face didn’t go all hard and resentful when she didn’t win, like someone else’s.

Also, I'm glad people seem to like all their other songs as well. My best wishes to them for a great career and happiness ^_^

カーストヘヴン Caste Heaven - Heaven of school caste by Ogawa Chise

I only read a few chapters online hoping it would change, show a hint of light at the end of the tunnel, but no, and it left me physically sick. Disgusted by the world created, where nobody is at least a decent human being, full of rape and violence and cruelty. It’s set in a school, so they are all classmates, and they are all present, unlike many stories where there’s a main couple and all the others are there only to fill the background. Yet, with so many characters, there isn’t one decent.

The plot that you read everywhere is “ruled by a cruel and arbitrary ranking system, the school is a pool of jealousy, envy and lust. Azusa was the king for a long time but one day he falls to the very bottom”.

This is nothing like Battle Royale though. This is a class where every year (or every so often, it’s not really clear when things will change) they see an empty cardbox on the teacher’s desk at it is announced that they must start looking for the cards. What they can find will be their role in the class until the game will start again. 

There’s a king and a queen, the highest ranks. Then there are those that suck up to the leaders, until at the very bottom there is “the target”, the one that will be constantly targeted. 

It starts with Azusa being the king and acting like a bully. When the game starts again he thought he could use Karino’s ‘crush’ on him to get him to find the king card for him, but Karino actually gets the king card for himself and hands the target card to Azusa, the only card left since he didn’t even try to search, he only wanted the king card and nothing else and was convinced he could use the other guy to obtain it. 

From this moment, those that had been bullied before become the bullies and Karino starts raping Azusa at any chance he gets. It’s not a case of ‘intimate’ or ‘unhealthy’ relationships, it’s a matter of rape treated as if it was just sex, as if it could be explained. 

Azusa’s character gets a little bit of background, to explain why he is who he is, because his mother (the only decent character I saw, but not a very ‘important’ one) is a poor woman, a prostitute who always told him that there are those at the top of society and those at the bottom and she hopes that he might finish school and find a way not to be at the bottom like her. She raised him alone and loves him, trying her best to survive in this f... up world. 

Azusa always felt that he can be what he wants, that he can be on top, should be actually. Throughout those pages I read he was the only one who didn’t change who he was in the first page, it only changed what he could do and what was done to him, but not his attitude or who he was. 

Still, the story starts with him being a bully, enjoying using others and punching the low-levels. So, he will be the victim throughout the story, but he started as a bully. 

One guy, the quiet one, seems to be a good guy for like a few seconds, even handing a better card to ex-target-Atsumu (I think that’s his name) and keeping a lower one for himself. They start a relationship and it seems like they’re both good, but then only weak-Atsumu keeps mostly on the ‘good’ side. The quiet guy becomes a shit himself when he helps Karino in his sadistic plan to have Atsumu rape Azusa - both the victim are forced in this, Atsumu doesn’t want to. Actually Atsumu is the only character that shows (other than a soul) how ‘society’s system’ unfortunately works. He kept being scared even after getting the Jack card, then started voicing his thoughts to protect his quiet guy, then started to feel that the Jack’s power wasn’t enough when the queen took away his guy for a while and he started thinking that he needed to be king and almost killed-hurt the queen if his guy hadn’t stopped him. He realises then that he almost became a monster and wants it to stop. He’s also the only one who ‘rebeled’ when he tried to talk to a teacher to stop Karino from keeping raping Azusa, and in retaliation Karino did what he did with the quiet guy’s help, making Atsumu’s wish to never make a friend again so to not put them in danger.

The toughest part though is that it’s not clear why this system exist. The teachers seem to not care at all, basically it’s the student themselves who carry on with this. The king tells his classmates to rape Azusa (to make him decide to accept to be raped by only him and not by everyone) and they run after him, just like that. Why do they do it? Nobody is forcing them. They enjoy the little power they have, it seems, because it’s always the student themselves who get upset if the target or a low-level seems to keep his head high or something, the adults seem to be absent almost completely. No adult seems to give a shit about this whole thing. One way or the other. If the students wanted it to stop, they wouldn’t even have to do much. They could respect the ‘system’, which means the king and queen come first, and then the others, and if there’s a surprise-interrogation let’s throw the target to the teacher... there would be no need for violence at all, that’s just them wanting it. The kids. They enjoy the system, revel in it, use it to express all their inner darkness.

It is also sad that Karino is rich, like the son of a rich man or a politician, I think it was, which also makes me think, what if he couldn’t find a high-level card? He does, but would they have accepted it if he hadn’t? Could this son of an important family ever be the target? 

Actually, do families know about the ‘system’?

Let’s not even waste words on the hypothesis that Karino might really be into Azusa and doing this to protect him or shit like that, because I hate all that. If he wanted to protect him the first step would be NOT to rape him every single day, NOT humiliate him, NOT torture him like that. Pretty simple.

I understand that it may be compared to real society, and there might be long discussions about this, and blah blah blah, still that would be true even if there was less violence. 

I don’t know if it has been finished by the author or if it’s still going on; if it’s finished and someone has read how it goes, I’d like to know if there is a light at the end of the tunnel or not (and how long is this tunnel...). I can’t bear it any longer, things only get worse page by page, the rapes are frequent and violent and I’m sick, emotionally and physically, I can’t stand this. 

Only connect

I like it a lot. I very rarely know the answers, but I like it anyway :-) Victoria Coren now Mitchell too is hilarious :-) and I like how clearly she speaks :-)
There are smart people and nice games, I love the missing vowels round although I agree with many other people that it gives out a lot of points compared to round 1 and 2, those two rounds should have different scores I think, they should weigh more on the results. Of course the possibility of losing points in the vowels round sort of levels it a bit, but still, the 'connecting' rounds should be more relevant, given the show title.
Also, I'd like the missing vowels round not to be a time one but a fixed number of guesses, because in a time round they tend to speak so quickly that it's not always clear what they say, so it's basically all about what Victoria hears and what she decides.
Anyway, the missing vowels game is the only one where I often get more points than them :-p

The thing that annoys me most though is the luck-factor, I'd like a show based only on knowledge and not on luck: most of the connections are impossible to get at the first clue - not hard but impossible, because most of the time it is a name or a number or a clue that only makes sense if compared to the others, but that could mean anything or nothing by itself.


I wonder if anyone has done the statistics because it seems to me like the music question is almost always the Lion one.. and I'd put the TwoReeds one in second place.. I'd like to know but at the same time I can't be bothered to watch it all again to count it myself :-p

Of course with my bad memory I never remember dates or names and having never been to the Uk I don't know their streets or schools.. I mean, it's so rare that I can answer something that whenever I know something I feel like a winner, and if I manage to end the show with ten points it's a total victory (of course at home I don't have to beat anybody and I have more questions than the teams..). I don't list what I knew or didn't know, too long (I mean sometimes I don't even understand the explanation) only the things that are more peculiar :)

After watching a few series I can't help wondering if it's normal to always have quizzes in pubs..


I saw:
Specials:
-Winners special 2009
-children in need 2010
-winners special 2011
-university challenge special 2011
crossworders - university challengers --- 17-11 ; 22-17 my goodness I can't believe it, I read comments about Victoria flirting, seducing, harassing... I watched the whole episode and all she did was a sigh and the word lovely during the introduction of the young university team.... poor fragile men, if they think that's harassing they should try being a woman for a day :-/
-comic relief 2011
-children in need 2011
great believers (with Nick Hornby) - free speakers (with John Sessions) --- 13-17 ; 16-20
-wall night special 2011
courtiers - knitters - 4-7 choir boys - editors: 4-5 - archers admirers - technologists: 4-5 - hitchhikers - travel writers: 4-2 -
-wall night special 2011
-winners special 2012
epicureans - crossworders --- the teams are both so clever that they can't see the easy questions :lol: I spotted the wall-colours at once - 7-15 ; 14-15
-mastermind special 2012
-sport relief 2012
cutters (with Marc Gatiss and Nick Hornby, and what looked like their secret weapon Samira Ahmed)  backhanders (with Stephen Mangan) --- 22-15 ; 28-20
-children in need 2012
goldfingers - fowls (with Richard Osman who calls her Vicky, and a Clarke Carlisle who seems to be cute and smart... a football player? really?) --- 19-19 ; 21-26

-children in need 2013

scrabblers/the balding team ---20-20 tiebreak - 20-21

-comic relief 2013

neuromantics - muppets (with David Mitchell: Victoria"honestly he was happier when he was single" :lol: ) - how could they not get the songs-for-tv-shows-titles, when they have someone who IS in Would I lie to you? parts of a body?!? - I was shouting Earnest, the other one is 'a woman of no importance', they're final words, come on! but they didn't hear me... well, considering they did it five years ago it's not surprising :lol: - 16-15 ; 25-17 rather an easy missing vowels round, I knew them all but the 'appian way' because I wasn't ready to know them in English.

-sports relief 2014
scribblers (with Charlie Brooker) - terriers --- 19-18; 18-25

-children in need 2014
noggins - curiosities --- (can't believe it took them so long to answer the tequila question.. I'm not a tequila drinker, not really my company's theme, and yet I knew it from the first clue. I can accept the answer after the second, but no more, and quick..) - 18-16 ; 22-18

-comic relief 2015
water babies - tillers --- 14-18 ; 14-27

-children in need 2015
music monkeys (again with David Baddiel, who has no idea what Yakuza means..) - chess pieces (again with Hugh Dennis - I don't know A.N. Wilson but I like how he talks) -
19-16 ; 23-16

-sport relief 2016
royal III (with John Cooper Clark and David Baddiel) - bbc (with Julian Lloyd Webber and Hugh Dennis; JLW didn't seem to me much of a team player..) -  I don't know the names or dates of all the wars (there were so many in this world..) but when I saw Peter Davison and Peter Capaldi in one clue and the second was 06:12 I thought 5-12 and 6-12? :-p -  'Samuel Ratchett' and for once I got it at clue one :-) - 19-12 ; 21-17

series 7:
corpuscles - cat lovers (love how after another question she came back ‘do you check your testicles before leaving the house? :lol: )  - A clockwork orange... I always knew it as clockwork orange... not really fair I think  17-18
cartophiles - celts (read kelts)  (mjollnir excalibur sting and hrunting the weapons - not swords - I got that one) and the audrey hepburn movies, I got all four at missing vowels, also 3 of 10-letter occupations plus other 2 ------- 24-28
francophiles (but don’t speak french) (with sam goodyear) - festival fans (with marianne fairthorne) --
in the connecting wall there were four Bette Midler movies, and when Victoria said that everybody cries watching Beaches Stewars McCartney said “I cried at Love actually so...” :lol: 23-20
general practitioners (the doctors) - fell walkers ----- 22-28
corpuscles - cartophiles - 26-26 then 26-27
general practitioners - festival fans ---- when Victoria says that BackToTheFuture is the greatest movie ever made, and Jo Durrant suggest DirtyDancing :-) love them both :-) - is there a tea called gunpowder???  28-30  
celts - cat lovers ---- Finally a Star Trek question! :-p I got the sequence right away, if 4th is Chakotay than 1st is Spock!!  23-13
francophiles - fell walkers --- this wall: I was thinking of the BadBoys with WillSmith, didn’t know there was an older one with SeanPenn... 22-10 before vowels--  27-16
festival fans - cat lovers ---12-15 before vowels--20-20 tiebreak--21-20
cartophiles - fell walkers ---9-11 before vowels--15-13
festival fans - celts --- 12-14 before vowels. 16-20
francophiles - cartophiles --- 23-16 before vowels --  29-19

final= francophiles - celts ---- 13-11 before vowels -- 22- 14

series 8:

laslett 25 : emma the girl who knows five languages
- pilots 21
globetrotters 21 - board gamers 26 
science editors 10 - oenophiles 28
press gang 21 - bakers 24 :-)
pilots 25 - globetrotters 28
press gang 17 - science editors 17 tie break - science editors win.
lasletts 28  - board gamers 18 
oenophiles 27  -  bakers 15
science editors 12  -  board gamers 21 (monopoly fight ‘it causes fights at xmas’ & michael wallace : causes 75% of broken homes “and you can take that as a fact I am a statistician” best of series :p  (It appears that they think papa means italian father :-p no, no, that's so wrong, that’s papà)
globetrotters (with suda perera) - bakers   (they said that red-haired means Rossi as in the popular surname.... well not exactly, that could be better said reds)
globe stole water wall because bakers like water, they did 6 others 7 and won for 1 point :-p 19-20
oenophiles - board gamers --- (black shirt-camicia nera - that’s a t-shirt...) oenophiles kept trying the same combination in wall over and over... 10-24 !! jamie always look like he know nothing...
lasletts - bakers ---- wanted them both in final :( ----- feeling of utter regret to spell four :lol:  18-23
Final= bakers - board gamers (!) - (they didn’t solve the kobayashi maru test, kirk cheated, both times, he didn’t solve it - if you know the answers you’re not really winning, you’re cheating!) - 
(sorry they couldn’t both win :8 but glad that they were those who loved the lion wall and those who wanted the water.. perfect pairing) both 10 in walls! 19-20 and then: 21-28! incredible!

series 9:

heath family - exhibitionists ---20-9 before vowels. 22-14

europhiles - relatives --- 11-9 before vowels. 17-14

welsh learners - software engineers --- (nobody recognized Alonso! this is a first when I know a picture and they don't) - 25-10 then 30-14

erstwhile athletes - record collectors --- 11-18 - 19-24

relatives - exhibitionists --- 13-10 then 21-15
erstwhile athletes - software engineers 13-18 then 19-24
heath family - europhiles ---6-13-- 8-21
welsh learners - record collectors --- 13-15 - 20-18 

heath family - software engineers --- 7-13 -- 10-16
relatives - record collectors --- 19-7--- 26-11
welsh learners - relatives --- 13-13 then 15-18
europhiles - software engineers (the girl Anne always freaks me out..) - 6-8 ; 11-7
Final: europhiles - relatives --- (I can't believe I didn't think of the right answer to 'Monaco Stoccarda Colonia Berlino', I read the Italian names for those cities so spontaneously that didn't realize that it was not normal in a British show... well, it was 1am when I watched it but still...)
9-9 then 16-10

series 10:
politicos - felinophiles --- (going to the left or moving clockwise are not the same thing, and yet she accepted it.. she herself admitted that going left or right depends on where you are but she had already said yes..) - 12-18 then 14-24
history boys - oxonians --- 20-14 then 28-19
wandering minstrels - gallifreyans --- 11-19 ; 12-26
qi elves - bibliophiles --- 12-19 then 16-23
coders (with Zoe,the one that reminds me of my granma, when she was young of course) - gamesmasters --- 12-19 then 13-30
chessmen - linguists (with Gail La Carbonara :p and Tom Fassnidge who reminds me of Michael Keaton)  ---  19-22 then 24-26
orienteers - romantics --- (Victoria: like dating: 4th stage=full abduction :lol: ) 20-19 - 33-21
nørdiphiles - nightwatchmen --- (at least this time I spotted the Italian connection :-p) - 18-23; 28-26
politicos - oxonians (the ones with the mouse-loving guy) --- 19-22; 24-33
wandering minstrels - chessmen ---- 15-15  ; 21-25
coders - romantics --- 18-14 ; 24-24
qi elves (currently at series L and paid in biscuits :p) - nightwatchmen --- 17-13 ; 24-18
history boys - felinophiles --- (at the wall: choose lion or water; water please; really?? what kind of felinophiles are you? :lol:) - 21-16 ; 29-20
linguists - gallifreyans --- (I can't believe that having never played Risk, not even sure what that is, I guessed right 12Asia :p) ; 11-17 ; 14-20
orienteers - gamesmasters (Filip Drnovšek Zorko really solved a Rubiks cube in 20 seconds! I mean, I know some people can do it, but to me that was magic!) ---  (it made me laugh that, as soon as 'estate' came up, they read it in English and I read it in Italian, and it turned out to actually be the Italian seasons :p also to hear foreigners speak Italian makes me feel much better about my English :p not mocking, he said it well, but still :lol: ) - 19-14 ; 22-19 :(
nørdiphiles - bibliøphiles --- (a wall with Agatha Christie books :-D thanks) (loved it when Victoria couldn't help but laughing :D often pregnant women cry so laughing is good thing I guess :D) - 12-11 ; 16-12
chessmen - felinophiles (sometimes he speaks soooo sloooowly) --- Monstrous Regiment! I knew that one :)  15-13 ; 19-19 = an easy one that took both a lot of time but at the end 20-19
linguists - oxonians --- (loved it when Victoria read the Toothache poem with an accent :lol:) - 21-19 then 27-25 :)
bibliophiles - gamesmasters ---  19-16 ; 20-22
qi elves - coders --- Doctor's first lines!!! :D - 13-8 ; 18-11
history boys - linguists --- 15-11  ; 19-18
orienteers - gamesmasters --- 16-11 ; 22-18
nørdiphiles - qi elves --- 17-20 ; 21-23
chessmen - gallifreyans --- 17-19 ; 25-22
chessmen - history boys --- 21-12 ; 27-18
orienteers - qi elves --- I kept supporting the elves, but Simon Spiro of the orienteers was really good, so it was an earned 19-7 ; 25-10 . I love the elves though.
orienteers - chessmen ---- was Victoria trying a Welsh accent at the beginning? - 15-15 ; 20-16

series 11:
cluesmiths - operational researchers --- 19-15 ; 27-20
polyglots - yorkers (with Alasdair Middleton the guy who owns chickens, which impressed Victoria) --- 18-18 ; 20-21
spaghetti westerners - mixologists (with Ewan MacAulay)--- 19-15 ; 25-24
collectors - railwaymen --- 9-17 ; 10-23
wayfarers - bookworms --- Terry Pratchett's books in the wall ! "I think we know what 95% of our viewers are getting for Christmas" :-p - 20-18 ; (Italian cheeses :p I got those :p and 5more)24-22
string session - headliners --- (cock is a term of endearment?? I read American Gods and got a totally different impression...) - 19-11 ; 25-16
road trippers - athenians --- (Terry and June, possibly the greatest show of all times, really? I never heard of it, I'll go looking for it because now I'm curious - also I had never heard of the song/nursery rhyme 'I know an old lady who swallowed a fly', really absurd, but it was fun when the guy sang the first verse and they all clapped - or at least Victoria did) - 14-16 ; 18-25
scientists - builders --- in the scientists' wall there were lots of Star Trek characters and yet not one connection was about them :-p - 23-8 ; 30-12
polyglots - operational researchers --- I got a picture connection, that doesn't happen often :-) and Helena-Bonham Carter, love her. 10-20 ; 13-25
collectors - mixologists --- 16-18 ; 22-24
headliners - bookworms --- I often wonder how far the images are from the contestants since they always seem to have difficulties seeing them well : at the Marco Polo picture I could read what was written in his book so I knew it was him: could they read it as well, I wonder? Don't think so..
18-13  ; 21-23
road trippers (they put glasses on for the fourth round, why not for the whole show? glasses are cool, I like glasses ) - builders --- 14-18 ; 18-28
cluesmiths - yorkers --- 17-20 ; 24-31
spaghetti westerners - railwaymen --- 12-13 ; 16-21
wayfarers (with the captain that sang Gold with passion) - string section (with the captain who refused to sing a single word) --- 17-14 ; 17-19
scientists - athenians --- 13-17 ; 18-16
cluesmiths - mixologists --- I didn't understand what they said when Victoria discussed Ewan't shirt "you've cat to be kitten me right meow" or something, but he said something that made everyone go ouououh but I didn't get it - 17-13 ; 22-14
spaghetti westerners - operational researchers --- 8-12 ; 10-17
wayfarers - builders --- Trek captains!!! the wayfarers found the dogs but the others didn't... -
19-13 ; 21-19
athenians - bookworms --- 20-16 ; 21-22
scientists - string section --- @=snail..of course, I didn't think of it that way... - 13-15 ; 15-23
yorkers - operational researchers --- 13-12 ; 20-16
cluesmiths - railwaymen --- 12-8 ; (so bold and bald actually have different pronunciations? I thought they sounded the same. So to say bald you must pronounce a long vowel... if they say so, ok) 17-9
wayfarers - bookworms --- 19-11 ; 25-15
cluesmiths - string section --- the 200th episode and Victoria kept eating the cake through all round 1 :p and Richard even sang a tiny little bit along with the others :p - 13-9 ; 14-14 = 14-15!
yorkers - wayfarers --- Alasdair was funny here, about Snoopzilla : "when he was rampaging through downtown Tokyo" :lol: - Victoria about 14 of July "birthday of the comedian David Mitchell, that's what most people would say but the question writers went for storming of the Bastille" :lol: -
15-14 ; 19-19 = 19-20 I liked both teams, but come on, they get such strange things and then they have difficulty with PHTFNSH=photofinish??
string section - wayfarers --- very difficult walls, one with words all starting with N and one with M.. I mean the principle is the same but somehow it's more confusing this way - 9-13 ; 15-12 !!
(I really liked to see the four musicians play the show theme, every show should have musicians!)

series 12:
tubers - bardophiles --- 21-12 ; 29-13
cosmopolitans (with the captain who likes to try bake-off recipes and sometimes reminds me of Delia, although cuter ) - taverners (with Simon Gibbons the astrophysicist who reminds me of Widdicombe) - 16-15 ; 23-18
psmiths (who applied singularly and were put together by the producers; has this every happened before? I didn't know people could apply without a team) - verbivores --- 21-13 ; 24-22
networkers - cousins --- Inigo Montoya and Harry Potter and Tony Montana, I knew that connection: yes, I know only the cultural ones :-p - 12-8 ; 18-13
shutterbugs - highgates --- 9-11 ; 15-11
korfballers - channel islanders --- 14-12 ; 25-13
bardophiles - taverners --- 11-18 ; 16-21
verbivores - channel islanders --- Elton's songs :lol: - 12-19 ; 23-22
fire-eaters - eurovisionaries --- (Victoria wanted them to sing all'alba vinceròvinceròòòò but they wouldn't, only the fire-eaters' captain started but since he was the only one he stopped :p) - 19-11 ; 26-14
wrestlers - clareites (Elysia Warner speaks ten languages and Italian is not one of those...) --- 10-15 ; 15-24
part-time poets - oscar men --- 18-16 ; 21-20
genealogists - surrealists --- (Victoria about Lionel Ritchie: he's incredibly attractive! he's no Portillo, but..  :lol: ) - 16-19 ; 22-26
maltsters - policy wonks --- 19-17 ; 21-23
scunthorpe scholars - beekeepers --- (a man, a plan, a canal:Panama! ?? what does this mean??) -
11-16 ; 14-24
maltsters - oscar men --- 13-22 ; 20-23
wrestlers - genealogists --- (when I first saw the movie Oscar back then I was rolling on the floor laughing, but then I was young..) 12-23 ; 21-23
cosmopolitans - tubers --- 15-15 ; 22-21
networkers - psmiths --- 14-16 ; 19-22
shutterbags - korfballers --- 18-17 ; 20-22
verbivores - taverners ( I like them, but couldn't they work out 7x4? how long do they need for that? Anyway, sorry to see them go, I liked them very much) --- I got the Harry Potter one at first clue, like Simon :-) - 10-16 ; 19-18
fire-eaters - clareites --- 17-10 ; 20-17
part-time poets - surrealists --- 18-17 ; 21-23
beekeepers - policy wonks --- Victoria says the Jeeves books are best books ever written in English... well if I find them I'll give them a go :-) - 16-12 ; 24-17
genealogists - oscar men --- 7-9 ; 11-17
fire-eaters - korfballers --- Victoria remembered Nick Kamen's Levi's spot :p that takes me back - 13-22 ; 15-27
surrealists - verbivores --- 18-13 ; 20-16 (what an obscure missing vowels round :-/ )
beekeepers - cosmopolitans --- 14-23 ; 19-26
psmiths - oscar men --- aeiou I love when there are Italian connections :-D - 12-10 ; 14-12
fire-eaters - verbivores --- 16-23 ; 22-26
beekeepers - oscar men --- 24-15 ; 29-19
surrealists - korfballers --- 21-12 ; 26-17
psmiths - cosmopolitans --- 9-19 ; 14-25
beekeepers - korfballers --- 12-20 ; 19-23
psmiths - verbivores --- (the pirates of the caribbeans characters were the only group I knew and they had no idea who they were...) - 11-20 ; 15-25
surrealists - verbivores --- 14-13 ; 15-17
korfballers - cosmopolitans --- 9-8 ; 14-15
verbivores - cosmopolitans --- did Victoria really drink four glasses during the show? Two during the first round only? Well, not my business, just curious - two walls with only numbers and they both got 10 points ! - 19-12 ; 26-18 oh, sorry that the girls lost,  I liked them :( ; nothing against the verbivores, well done.

series 13:
stewards (those with the green capes and the guy who doesn't eat potatoes) - parishioners (with the captain who reminds me of Forrest Gump and the bald guy with the cute smile and the shy-looking smart girl) --- the places where Tom Cruise is seen running :lol: - how can Peter be a way to say decline? - 10-17 ; 15-26
geocachers (with the sort-of-asian-looking-round-faced girl) - vikings (with the Patrick Swayze almost-but-actually-not-double)  ---  11-17 ; 20-21
snake charmers - extras --- 20-10 ; 26-12
eco-warriors - escapologists --- Italian singer Dolce? Who's that? Never heard of him :-/ -
23-20 ; 27-23
lapsed physicists - belgophiles --- can't believe they didn't get the 'amazing' one.. - 14-20 ; 21-25
meeples (the captain with her husband and her brother who quoted Hamlet) - tequila slammers --- 14-11 ; 20-16
cricketers - inquisitors (with Luke Kelly who never wears his glasses during the introduction and always puts them on at the first question) --- 18-18 ; 21-28
wanderers (with the guy who likes word-games because they make him happy :D) - pedagogues --- 23-13 ; 26-19 :-)
disparates - beaks (the three teachers, two of them married) --- I was very surprised that the disparates didn't know the Poirot characters! Everybody forgets who Miss Lemon is!  14-14 ; 13-20
dandies - gaffers --- 20-7 ; 25-9
arrowheads - wombles --- 15-11 ; 22-15
detectives - theatricals --- 16-14 ; 23-20
vikings - parishioners (what's the girl watching? a tablet?) --- 21-11 ; loved how the vikings laughed at 'cheap generic viagra' :lol: - 23-13
eco-warriors - snake charmers --- the coffee question: do they think that espresso means 'pressed' ? why? - I don't understand, how does 'man-of-war' mean Portugal? And 'practices means Spain?? what are they talking about? This show is too smart for me... - 12-16 ; 17-16
meeples - belgophiles --- Victoria was rather nice accepting the DD answer when it should have been D&D, I thought they were different things, before she explained it I thought they meant that there was a girl with the initials AA and a man with initials BB, but no, they were two people, A&A, B&B, so not the same thing actually.. usually she would have said 'have another go'... - 16-17 ; 21-22
wanderers - inquisitors --- Neil Gaiman's books! I got one in the wall :-) it's easy, nothing to boast about really, but this is me so it's something - 22-13 ; 25-20
dandies - beaks --- 15-12 ; 16-20
detectives - arrowheads --- 16-11 ; 19-18
meeples - parishioners --- I loved it when they sang all together :-) - 15-11 ; 23-15
snake charmers - inquisitors --- for the first time I got the music question :) I only knew two of the songs but 'seven seconds' and 'seven years' were enough :) - 12-18 ; 19-23
dandies - arrowheads --- I actually looked it up on youtube: the 1967 Grand National race, when the horse that had been last until the end actually won because all the others had fallen, a big pile up :lol: I had never seen such a thing :p I guess in those races the horse and the rider need to be together to win? The horse alone wouldn't be enough? - 20-12 ; 25-19
cricketers - escapologists --- 19-15 ; 21-23
meeples - inquisitors --- I loved it when the meeples captain sang American Pie and started off with but a whisper and her brother joined in for support and then she sang it :-) lovely - 22-19 ; 24-27
dandies - escapologists --- in the music sequence I only recognized Nat King Cole and thought 'what might come after a king?' but not knowing the other two I didn't think of the cards so I couldn't think of anything :/ It didn't occur to me in time to think that the ace beats the king... - 9-12 ; 17-19
ecowarriors - inquisitors --- 12-9 ; 14-17
wanderers - vikings --- (John Payne hates Ricky Gervais :p I don't know why I write that...) - 10-20 ; 19-25
detectives - escapologists --- 10-13 ; 12-23
belgophiles - beaks --- the annoying thing is that I knew all the pictures and yet I didn't think of the connection :-/ it was pope Benedict, Donald MacDonald, Dorothy in the wizard of Oz and a ballerina= they all wear red shoes..) - wait, did Victoria just comment 'Nonsense' after saying "Aragorn returns to claim the throne of Gondor"?? Sacrilege!! - 14-13 ; 20-15
wanderers - eco-warriors --- they all sang together Millennium :-) how nice :-) sure thing, you don't have to insist for John to start singing :-) good - I'm ashamed to say I didn't get the picture sequence Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because although I was thinking teenager and ninja, I kept thinking of specific x-men names, not just mutants... - 6-12 ; 11-17
detectives - beaks --- I found out that Italy runs on the Dilbert Principle: Victoria explained that incompetent people are promoted to the highest positions while the capable people do the work at the lowest levels; it's unfortunate that all the decisions are made by the highest levels :-/ - 16-13 ; 20-20 - after tiebreak : 21-20
vikings - inquisitors --- I never knew about the toasts at sea: Saturday it was 'our wives and sweethearts' which became  'our families' because now there were women too; Victoria said they took the joke away and that they could have said 'our spouses and sweethearts' but of course they didn't do that, because men cheating if good fun, women cheating is not :-/ - 18-19 ; 23-25
belgophiles - escapologists (I liked them: Frank once dressed as Emily Dickinson and Lydia had a passion for Wednesday Addams :p she was her childhood idol :-D) --- 12-12 ; 17-16
detectives - vikings (we're hanging a lantern on this? Is that a British saying? )  --- 15-16 ; 22-23
eco-warriors - escapologists ---  yes, the only things I knew in the walls where the High School Musical characters and the Sandra Bullock movies... - 8-11 ; 11-19
vikings - belgophiles --- JK Galbraith, I got this at first clue too - 7-12 ; 6-17
inquisitors - escapologists --- 'per me è arabo', they say 'it's all Greek to me', who knew.. - I also got the DiCaprio movies/actors that got the oscars instead of him :D but I haven't yet seen any of those movies so I can't judge - 16-19 ; 18-30
escapologists - belgophiles --- this time the teams were spared from singing because there was the
a-cappella group :) - 17-11 ; 21-14

series 14
1-hotpots - poptimists --- kinder eggs have been banned is the US?? Oh my, the madness.... - (the music question is the lion..) -
once again I knew the only questions that were so easy no actual studying was required for it: the one easy enough that no team thought of it, the letter v-question  ; the back-to-the-future-years-question,
16-20 before vowels-round. 19-31 (I got three... which makes five with the two above..)
2-durhamites - LARPers --- 12-16 - 15-24
3-pyromaniacs - cartoonists ---- 16-18 -- 24-22
4-motorheads - time ladies --- 20-17 -- 24-24 -- 24-25
5-birdwatchers - dicers --- 16-23 --- 22-29
6-brews - forrests --- of course I knew the discworld-question, with much more enthusiasm than them; 12-15 ---  16-24
7-ancient alumni - three peaks --- 23-14 --- 29-15
8-dragons - westenders --- I only got the W(D)-answer, I'm sorry to say I wasn't quick enough on the Indiana-Jones-movies-one, they said it before I got there. 15-16 -- 17-24
9-hotpots - durhamites --- 18-20  --- 20-29
10-


champion of champions special :
europhiles - string section --- 7-21 --- 10-25
sport special:
footballers - korfballers --- 17-16 -- (vowels game: it seemed to me like both teams said 'croquet and pall mall', why was the first team wrong?) 25-17
family special:
lasletts - meeples --- (I can't believe I got the music questions ! ) - 19-20 --- 28-23 (one of my fav. eps, great quizzing and lovely teams)


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America's got talent

2018

-Aaron Crow: is it all real? I mean, all of it, for real? Do they allow these risks? The guy clearly knew what he was doing, but how can they know, with all the crazy people in this world? Do they really allow a stranger to come close to Howie’s head like that? I’d say ‘and to people in the audience’ but I think they were clearly in on it, so calm and unsurprised. Anyway, the point is, I don’t believe this is real as they show it to be at all, they wouldn’t let him risk people’s lives for real.  
-Mochi was the Japanese guy who did an act with a diabolo (that sort of hourglass on a string) and was really good!
-Sixto and Lucia did a very good QuickChange act, and at the end they included Tyra :-) They should only add a bit of show to it. 

Magicians:
-Sacred Riana, I mean, she put on quite a show, she was impressive and scary, the act more amazing that the actual magic, very well prepared and arranged, and I must say, rather brave too to start an act like that, quite the character!! I had seen her already on Asia’s got talent.
-Shin Lim, very cute and knowing that, did a very good act; basically is the usual ‘sign a card and then I’ll make it disappear and reappear here and there without you noticing’ but he did it very well and it was very cool, and with a very cool twist at the end

Comedians:
-Vicki Barbolak, she was funny since she arrived, she said her name and that she was a ballerina, and they all went quiet looking at her thinking that she didn’t exactly look the part :-p she was funny :-p
-Samuel J. Comroe, the comedian with Tourette syndrome so he twitches a lot, was funny making fun of his condition, I only wondered how could he be sure of doing the right winking when he wants to do it on purpose, if his syndrome is uncontrollable... anyway it was fun. 

Singers:
-Christina Wells, the big big mother of two, had a really beautiful voice and she knew how to use it, she was great. 
-Us The Duo, a young married couple singing an original song, ‘No matter where you are’, and I liked it a lot
-Michael Ketterer, he got Simon’s golden buzzer. 
-Flau’jae, 14-y-o, sang a rap against gun violence. 
-Daniel Emmet sais he’d sing an original, and he sang in Italian! Simon made him learn a new song, sure that he wouldn’t know it, and I was very surprised that it was Aleandro Baldi’s Passerà!! How does he know the song? It’s 24 years old! I love it though, and Daniel sang it very well and confidently, although I admit I liked it much more by Baldi. Very different styles, plus it’s difficult to give the song soul if you don’t feel every word you’re singing. 
-Jeffrey Li, 13-y-o boy from Canada, sang You raise me up very well. Now Simon will have to buy him a dog as promised!
-Courtney Hadwin, 13-y-o girl, was very bizarre and very good, whatever she sang, and she got Howie’s golden buzzer! From his words I guess it was a Janis Joplin’s song. 
-Noah Guthrie, a guy who’s already been on Glee apparently, sang very well here. 

Acrobats:
-Zurcaroh, but it was more than acrobatics. It was that and also there was a very nice choreography, a bit of dancing, I really liked this act, I’m ok with them getting the golden buzzer, good choice Tyra. 

2017


Same judges as last year: Howie, Mel B, Heidi, Simon. The host changed though:Tyra instead of Nick
I find it so annoying when the audience starts shouting and booing, I really can’t stand it. 
I’m also always angry that they leave behind real talents to make space for children or acts that once devoid of youth or cuteness or newness have really not enough talent to go on. I know for the producers it’s only a show but for this people it’s their chance to be seen! 
First audition I saw, two women claiming their chicken Joku could play the keyboard.. and he did!
Comedians:
-Preacher Lawson, he was funny! He didn’t simply tell jokes, he acted them adding to the fun, and when he finished (and like Mel, I was also thinking, already? more, more) Simon actually asked him to say one more jokes, and the guy looked like in trouble for a second as if thinking ‘that’s all I’ve got today’, but then he came out with something more and hilarious as well, he was great. I mean, even if I didn’t understand everything he was saying when he talked fast while laughing, I never thought for a second of stopping watching it, because he was funny anyway! After the performance, he even called Mel’s blue “dress” a mystique-outfit :lol: I was glad he went on to the live show, because it’s a great window for him, I hope he has lots of work after this. 
-Harrison Greenbaum, he was nice and funny, not laughing-out-loud-hilarious but funny, he only did less than two minutes, so.. looking forward to see more. I was sorry he didn’t go thru. 

-Ventriloquist (and singer) Darci Lynne, 12-y-o, was amazing from the start, I loved her! And I loved her puppet, Petunia is so cute! For me that’s not irrelevant, I can’t relate to ventriloquism acts if I don’t like the puppets at least a bit. I also liked two things: 1.when her mom also hugged Petunia, after Mel’s golden buzzer :-D and 2. the faces of their family, as if they shared a secret and were thinking ‘we know what’s coming’ and it was all adorable. 1. Petunia sang Summertime; 2. Oscar singing to Mel; 3. Old Edna singing Natural woman to Simon :-p 4.Oscar and Petunia singing together With a little help from my friends 5. duet with Terry Fator’s impersonating turtle (I loved this because it made me know Terry Fator and I thought he was so amazing I looked for his past AGT’s acts and he’s the most amazing talent I’ve seen in a long time: not only a very very good ventriloquist which is quite a lot in itself, but his puppets sing, they do impersonations, they do different accents... amazing!!!
-Diavolo, a group of acrobats doing an act that seemed to come out of a Cirque du Soleil movie, it was really good. 
-Elena & Sasha did an extreme balancing act, where she performed on a pole that the guy balanced on his head! Pretty impressive. And they were actually a lovely couple. 
-The Pompeyo family, a couple with a little girl, did an act with all their dogs, and it was very good!
.The Godfathers, four incredible acrobats! Beautiful!
-Bello Nock was more of an acrobat than a clown, and watching him on that bending pole made me dizzy.. he was good at what he did though, and to say that it’s an act for two-year-olds is ridiculous (Simon said this). Then he shoot himself out of a cannon over an helicopter because Simon had told him he’d like to see that :-/ and at the live show I liked his number a lot, walking inside and outside two big wheels turning..
-Maxim Popazov did an incredible balancing-on-chairs act, wow. 
-Maria Popazova, his wife, was good too. 
-Two flying little acrobat girls were lovely to watch.
-Sara and her dog Hero were adorable, I liked both of them so much, I’m glad Simon pushed for Howie to change his vote and give her a yes, I wanted to see more too. 1.pirate; 2. robbing a museum; 3. Lara Croft with guest dog Loki; 4. at the beach; 5.the least rehearsed act but I still liked to see Hero and Loki so lively and loving, and at the end Hero flew and cought a bone!

Singers:
-Joli Mayor, the 21-y-o girl who came all smartly dressed with a cocktail dress and a big necklace, and Simon stopped her and made her change her song; Tyra shouted ‘keep it young’ and ran to take away her jewellery and shoes, and Joli started again, and was good. At the judge cuts, it was great! If I were in Miami, I’d definitely go see her wherever she sings.  At the live show she was beautiful in a red dress. Finally she lost the black and wore a red dress with red shoes. Good.
-Puddles Pity Party, he sang Chandelier rather well, and for some reason he dressed as a clown all in white and didn’t spoke a word before singing... he was great at the judge cuts too, I really love how he sings. 
-Chase Goehring, 21, sang an original song, Hurt, and it was really good, and he looked a real artist. I think that one line sang without music was a brilliant move!
-9-y-o Angelica Hale was so cute and sweet and then she said she wants to be the next Whitney Houston and then she sang brilliantly! Such a voice from such a sweet little girl!
-Mandy Harvey; a very pretty 29-y-o girl, deaf since she was 18; she sang her own song called Try, and it was beautiful. The voice, the words, everything. She sang “if I don’t try there is no one for me to blame because I know the only thing in my way is me”... it was all beautiful. I got emotional when people got on their feet and started clapping and she laughed at first seeing it all and then she closed her eyes and finished her song, so she wasn’t at all distracted by it.. I think this girl is amazing.
She was Simon’s golden buzzer, and this time a very good choice it was. Her special performance, a duet with Shania Twain, was my favourite, I loved it. 
-Kechi Okwuchi had a very sad emotional story, for real, one of the only two survivors of a plane crash that killed 107 in Nigeria.. that’s really big, you know, and I was so happy when she sang and she really sang very well and I was so glad. 
-In the Stairwell, an a cappella group, part of the Airforce Academy. They did very well: I liked it, Howie thought it was boring, Heidi thought , not surprisingly, that they looked good in uniforms...
-Daniel Ferguson was brilliant, singing Cake by the ocean, but using the voices of ScoobyDoo, Kermit, even Simon! He was hilarious, I loved it!
-Christian Guardino sang very well, so much that Howie stood up right in the middle of it, and then he asked him what he wished for at that exact moment and he got the right answer: the golden buzzer, and he got it. 
-Celine Tam, the 9-y-o girl who sang My heart will go on, who has as passion for Celine Dion, just like her parents who like C.D. so much they named their two daughters Celine and Dion... She sang really well, and was also adorable :-)
-The Masqueraders, three men that sang together, sort of. The first couple of seconds I was like :-/ I don’t know, and then I got transported, imagining myself in a nice club with soft lights, sitting at a table with someone special, listening to them all night...  They were really something, thumbs up!
-Johnny Manuel sang a Whitney Houston song, I have nothing, very well. At the judge cuts, he sang a bit of it a cappella and it was even greater, he’s really good! Seal gave him the golden buzzer after that.
-Final Draft, four guys singing, were not my style but very good nonetheless. 
-Brandon Rogers the doctor got amazing comments from the judges. So sad to read at the beginning of the online video that he died in a car accident.. :’(

Magicians:
-Will Tsai was very good, he did a trick with coins and rose petals, with a camera that followed his movements up closely, and it was really good!
-Part magician, part escape-artist I suppose. Demian Aditya made Howie jump out of his seat, they all wondered if anything had gone wrong until he showed up safely outside the box full of sand! He was very cute and I suppose really good at the judge cuts, although I don’t know how to judge that, I can’t understand how much of it is real and how much is a trick (well done anyway), and I feel so bad for wondering if his wife is really crying or if it’s part of the act... I mean, it was amazing anyway because I can’t see how he could appear among the other men shoveling without being seen. 
-Colin Cloud, the modern Sherlock Holmes he calls himself, did a good act and at the end revealed the cutest little white cat, and Simon asked to play with it while judging: Colin didn’t seem too happy with that, as if afraid that something might happen to the cat :-p but Simon simply stroke the sweet little thing, and said “we could take over the world” which was hilarious :lol:
-The French twins, John and Toni, did a brilliant act, loved it, but I was kind of disappointed that they didn’t even mention the two girls that were in the act, they went away as soon as it was over and nobody mentioned them, it seemed very unkind to me. 
-Tom London, sorry but I didn’t like his act at all, and for once in my life I did think of how he did it, because I saw a lot, really lots of people in the audience completely indifferent to the fact that their own cell-phones were suddenly going crazy changing colours and then going totally black... not only they were not bored which is more than unusual, they even looked bored. And what about the fact that as soon as he said :hold your phones, a lot of people had it ready over their heads with the light on, just like people used to do at concerts with lighters...; judge cuts, he did basically the same :-/ 
-Henry Richardson, he did stuff with cards we’ve seen lots of times on AGT or BGT, but he did it very well and he’s only 15, so there’s every element there to become a great magician, if he puts his mind to it !
-Eric Jones, I loved it when he smashed Simon’s buzzer at the judge cuts :-p
-Jeki Yoo was funny, a lovely character, and very good too :-) But they sent him home.... has anyone counted how many singers made it to the semi-final? and how many magicians? What do they base their decisions on??? 

Dancers:
-12-y-o Merrick Hanna was great, I mean his act was amazing. Basically he simply did a little dance choreography but what he really did was to illustrate the song’s story, and make it emotional. I didn’t like his live show though because in a way I think he relied too much on the projection behind him (like, when the song spoke about flying he didn’t make any move, stuff like that). 
-Shemika Charles, I don’t know if this can be called dancing, or maybe acrobatics, she did the lowest Limbo act I’ve ever seen. Nobody can beat her at limbo dancing!
-The dancing pumpkin man.. I didn’t get it, but apparently Mel loved it so much she went on the stage to ask Simon or Heidi to change their no to a yes, and Simon did. Howie had already said yes, and it had been all on Heidi’s hands, and since Simon had said no, it was no surprise that she ignored Mel begging her for a yes, she went for a no. What a shocker :-/
-Light Balance, a group from Ukraine, presented a dance act with lights on their clothes that I don’t know exactly how to describe but it was very entertaining and good. They were Tyra’s golden buzzer, good for them, finally someone who’s not a singer, it’ll be good for them to show what they can do at the live show.
-Just Jerk group from South Korea, they were very good. They were the best dance group I’ve seen in these talent shows ♥︎♥︎ less acrobatics but more precision, more show, more going to the music, more choreography, I loved them. 
-Cornejo Dance company from Argentina, they did a sort of tango-routine, but a bit different , and it was good.

2016.


This year’s judges: Howie, Mel B, Heidi and Simon!
I wish they had prized for the top three, instead of so much money only for the first. They could do: 700.000 the first, 200.000 the second, 100.000 the third, this way it would still be a matter of who wins, but there would be something for other incredible acts. Or even more, made some special prizes for deserving acts that don’t make first place. I mean, sometimes there are so many deserving acts that it’s a shame that only one must get it all.. I do hope many of them get some kind of deal, touring around I mean, because there were a lot of good acts this year. 

-Twin brothers, 9-y-o Elian&Zion, played the keyboard together, and well indeed!
-Sos & Victoria did an amazing audition, a quick-change act, they were good and the dresses were very pretty. They did good enough at the judge’s cuts too, too bad their live show was bad, there were lots of moments where I could clearly see how they did it, and that killed the magic :-(

-Patrick and his dog Ginger, that apparently saved him from OCD, good for them, they were good, and I loved to see how the dog enjoyed it, it’s the best part to see how the dogs love their humans, and Ginger loves him for sure.
-Jonathan Nosan, he was a contortionist and they were all very impressed. I must say that as a contortionist he did pretty basic stuff, but he’s not only 47, but he was all smartly dressed which contributed to the surprise, and he moved slowly and graciously and kind of to the music, so that it seemed like a contortionist-dance. I liked it too.
-The 57-y-o acrobat, hand-balancer did a dangerous act that had everyone holding their breath, and me too. His name was something like Gary Slatik, or something, and he was amazing.
-Russian Bar Trio, two men and a woman, fantastic aerial acrobat act, beautiful.
-A husband and wife duo, high wire act done outside, wow that looked dangerous (although they had safety mattresses on the floor, which I honestly think they should always have on these kind of acts even inside). That woman was incredible!!! And both over 50, I couldn’t believe it, amazing!!
-Viktor Kee, the juggler, was very good and actually graceful, it was like a juggling-dance. Good!
-Alfred&Anna, the knife-throwing act, was good and I was kind of gripped by how she simply moved her eyes looking at the knife stopping near her face, barely cracking a smile, and being such a part of the act.
-ThroWings, a couple of trapeze artists, were incredible, I liked their act a lot. I don’t know how to describe it, he made her swing like on a ..swing, and she did acrobatics on air before he cought her again..
-Sofie Dossi, a 14-y-o girl, did one of the best hand-balancing acts I’ve ever seen! 14, wow! She moved like a cat, she was very good, and did an amazing act!! And as if what she had already done wasn’t amazing enough, she shot an arrow with her feet and hit her target! I know other contortionists have done it, but it’s not only that she’s only 14, she did it very well!!
-Cody Carter, or Cody the Twirler, was really good with his act, twirling his batons or however you call them, well done. 
-Philippe & Marie Lee were amazing acrobats :-)

Dancers:
-Alla Novikov danced with her son Daniel, and they were very good. She’s a beautiful dancer, and he danced really well too!
-Malevo, a group of guys who danced some kind of Argentinian dance using ropes and tap-shoes, and it was good!
-Evelen play, the Japanese drone dance group, made a big show. A lot of drones with a light on each, five guys controlling them and five pretty girls dancing, it was a lovely show. 
-a group of 16 to 20 kids tap-dancing, it was good
-Outlaws dance group, five guys who did a modern dance with a western-movie sort of soundtrack, and I liked it a lot. 

Magicians:
-The Clairvoyants, not sure they can be described as magicians but how else can I describe them? They say they have such a bond that she can feel whatever he has in his hands, so the act was this: she was blindfolded and could tell right away what it was that he held in his hand. I can only imagine three explanations: 1.she could somehow see; 2.it was already planned and she knew in advance what the objects were, but this would mean that a man in the audience plus Heidi and Howie were in on it, which seems a bit too much; 3. magic.
-Jon Dorenbos, apparently known in America as a football player for the Philadelphia Eagles, here tried out as a magician, and he did a very cool card trick at that! Cool dude! :-p
-Ab10-y-o brother ‘saw’ his 8-y-o sister in half.. with a chainsaw.. seriously? The world I grew up into wasn’t happy with little children handling chainsaws!!! And it was the oldest trick in the world and quite obvious, the only thing going for them was that they were young and cute and related.
-Steven Brundage, Rubik’s cube magic!

Singers:
-Linkin’ Bridge. Four men singing a cappella. They were very good, I think. They did a soul version of Over the rainbow.
-Musicality, a high-school choir; they were very good, I really liked it. I loved them! Very good judge’s cuts too ❤︎
-The family trio, the young mom with a daughter that looks like her sister :-) and a lovely man in her life, they sang well. Her story touched people in the was that she toured already at 13, but then she met a guy and became pregnant and they kicked her out, then she had her daughter and later on met this man and now they’re a family :-) 
-John Hetlinger was the 82-y-o ex-aerospace engineer who sang a rock song shouting all the way through leaving everyone open-mouthed :lol:
-Grace Vanderwall, the 12-y-o singing an original song, was very good, plus she was very young and pretty which helped. She got Howie’s golden buzzer. 
-Good girl, a band of four girls, very good and pretty. 
-Kadie Lynn, a 12-y-o country singer, was good, I liked her. And her boots.
-One voice, 12 kids from the same high-school, were an a cappella group, and very good.
-14-y-o Jayna Brown was amazing singing Summertime, wow. 
-Ronee Martin was a nice beautiful 62-y-o woman who sang well, and only said ‘ok’ twice when Simon stopped and made her change her song, and then she sang Natural Woman and she was great.
-Raii and his wife Whitney, the Smiths, are background vocalists for many artists and want to sing now, and they were very nice, I liked them although I didn’t like their choice of song, whatever it was.
-Brian Justin Crum, 28-y-o from San Diego, sang Somebody to love and he was very good. 
-Daniel Joyner was good
-Moya Angela was really good, big voice, she sang a Celine Dion song
-RL Bell, he had a good voice and sang well, and was criticized only because he took his jacket off?? It was only the jacket, and Simon talked about striptease?? Come on! Men never criticize a girl in a skirt, what’s wrong with a man showing off his big arms? And then they waste golden buzzers for absurd acts were talent is totally absent, this is not right, I know they have to make a show but this is important for people who might get the chance to show what they can do at the live show!

Comedians:
-Tape Face, a guy who didn’t speak a word. His act was very silly and simple, but the way he performed it was rather funny. Next two acts were enough funny, but his semi-final made me :lol:
-DJ Demers, the guy from Canada who has the hearing aid in his ear, was very nice and very funny, he made me laugh!! the ‘me and my partner’ and ‘everyone trying to solve the mystery’.. it was very funny and he was very funny afterwards too while talking to the judges, he played along and it was fun!
-Lori Mae Hernandez, 13-y-o, really surprised me! Doing it for three years already to make her dad laugh, but I heard her story later, as it happened I first saw her act and then heard her story, so there was no bias based on her touching story and her love for her dad. She was very funny! She delivered her lines so well, she was hilarious!!! She should have a brilliant career! I mean, I watched it a second time and although I knew the joke already, when she said ‘with me’ that way I laughed again :lol: I loved her! I totally loved her! Specially her first two exhibitions, because I think she’s more funny when she jokes about her stuff, things of her age, and not politics or other adult-things.
-Cory Kahaney, she was funny.
-Adam Grabowski was funny at the audition, easily making fun of Disney movies, and I thought ‘too bad they didn’t show the whole audition online’, but then he ruined everything. I was sad for him when the audience was so quiet at the judge’s cuts, and Simon even buzzed.. I mean, I’ve heard him make that routine elsewhere and it was funny, but the fact is, he should have warmed up to it instead of starting with that out cold.. in comedy it’s all a matter of timing and warming up the audience. Problem is, starting with that right away, people didn’t know what he was talking about, didn’t know where he was going with that, he should have started with a small joke to put them in the right state of mind, I understood that. He made the wrong choice of piece to begin with: -in the other video that I saw people were already laughing and therefore well inclined to keep laughing; -in that video he started out this one routine by saying that men will try not to laugh and women will try to hide it, or something, and honestly that’s not what one wants auditioning for AGT, he should have gone with quick fire jokes; -on agt he didn’t even add that little introduction, he started right away by asking if guys had ever heard girls make a noise for the dessert.. and starting out like that it was just weird, people simply kept looking at him wondering what he was talking about, and he didn’t play with the audience, he followed his script word for word, making it worse. It was sad to watch and he made it much much worse after he finished. He was not nice, I understand it was a big deal for him, but for him to react that way was not alright at all. He blamed it on the audience and the judges for not laughing, and then he turned it into a thing against women, as if it was their fault for not laughing.. Now I definitely buzz him off for good.

-Ryan Beard, the 18-y-o guy who was home-schooled but not by choice, had a very funny compelling attitude :-p he sang a song he wrote, but it was a comedy-song, more designed to be funny than real music. 
-Christopher, the 54-y-o man from Las Vegas, did a strange act; he attached himself to four dummies and moving them all at the same time he danced to YMCA.. I mean, it was :lol: to see it once..
-The passing zone, two guys who did strange acts involving Howie and then Howie and Mel at the judge’s cuts. They were good and funny too, and innovative, I liked their show. Their live show was hilarious, three judges hanging by some weird suit and they juggled them around :lol: 

2015
Same judges. My fav this year: Howie.

Joanna Kennedy teached how to kiss.. well, it’s not a performance for AGT but it’s interesting anyway, and many man should listen to what she said I think :-p
A lot of amazing acrobatic duos. A lot of incredible acts. 
The guy climbing the ladder was amazing. 
The Duo Vladimir, the two guys both called Vladimir from Ukraine were amazing.
Showproject, four gymnasts, two from Germany and two from Chech Republic, were amazing.
-Paul Zerdin the ventriloquist was really good and funny :-) and English too :-) And smart, he did an act when he used Howie as his puppet putting words in his mouth and making him dance, and he chose his judge very well because with another judge the act would probably have been ruined, but Howie played along. Later he said “you humiliated me” which is not true, but he still played along and made the act very funny! Paul won this year’s prize.
Singing puppet Ira in love with Mel B was funny, and sang you’re so beautiful. 

Singers:
The Craig Lewis band, two guys singing soul, were very good together. They sang It’s a men’s world.
-Triple Threat, three guys who got together because they got injured at the same school at the same time. They were good, one the lead singer, one doing the rap-bits and one sort of doing the high-notes and the chorus.. They were good!
-Benton Blount, the big stay-at-home dad, was really good, my favourite singer of this year.
-Johnny Shelton, sang his own song dedicated to his dead son.. it was actually a really good song, sang well, and after what he said it was of course extremely emotional. 

Magicians:
-Derek Hughes, his magic trick was not really my style, retrieving the right card from his pants, but he was funny!! He was more of a comedian than a magician, in a way- 
-Aiden Sinclair, who did five years in prison because he was a con-man then he fell in love and turned himself in, and learned card tricks. He had Howard call his mother to ask her a random card, and he had already selected that card.. 

Dancers:
I loved the group of five dads, the dad-itude :-)
The Squad, the eleven boys dancing, were really good. 
The girls of DM Nation were good!

2014

Judges: Howard, Howie, Mel B and Heidi. This year the judge I liked more was Howie, followed, far away, by Mel B.. and that’s it. 
I didn’t like the ‘judgement week’, with the contestants performing only to the four judges, I hated that.  
Unfortunately I didn’t see all the acts, but most of all at the live shows the contestants had so little time, I mean really really not enough time!
A 93-y-o man pulled a vehicle with his teeth!! Wow. Mighty Atom’s son indeed!
Brothers Emil and Dariel played cellos very well (from what I can understand), and a Jim Hendrix piece at that!
Laura Dasi was an aerialist, performed an aerial silk acrobatic act, and she was good; not cirque-du-soleil-good but good. And beautiful.
Abigail Baird did aerial animation, with images behind her to tell the story of what she was doing.. like running away from the bear, swim away from the shark... it was really nice!
Contortionists: Nina was really good, and 36 which is not the age when you’re naturally bendy!
4 little girls were really good, they should be in a circus but they probably already are.
Two sisters, from Mongolia I think, were really really good too. 
The two women doing trapeze were very good, I wanted the full audition :-/
Valio and Bobbi from Bulgaria did an acrobatic act, he balanced a big thing on his forehead and she was on the top of it spinning around. They were good. 
Andrey Moraru, originally from Ukraine, did a really really beautiful hand-balancing act, he moved like a dancer and made it all look so easy!!
Christian Stoinev also did a hand-balancing act; he was not as graceful as Andrey, but he did some pretty difficult stuff, amazing stuff!!!
Rokardy, 49, also did a hand-balancing act, but based on strength and danger, going higher and higher!
Joe the birdman had a parrot as his act. Was this real?? I mean, never mind the fact that it’s always been said that parrots can talk, Tika the bird sang Hush little baby!
The group of kids that played basketball acrobatic was amazing, I wanted to see the full audition :-/
Loop Rawlins made a show with a lazoo.. wow. 
A space engineer presented a pig he trained himself! And the pig did tricks like a dog! wow.
A 77-y-o man was an archer and did an act with an assistant ultimately holding a ball with her mouth, and turning her head up, not sideways, which is even more dangerous, and when they finished, Mel asked if he ever missed, if there ever was an accident, which is an understandable curiosity I think, but Howard went on and on saying he looked so old as if he could barely stand up (not true in my opinion) and that he looked like Mr Magoo and also if he could make it through the summer!! Come on, he just proved to be a perfect shot! Yes, he’s not a kid anymore, but they both can see if he’s fit to do it or not! I guess he also practice without a human target!
AcroArmy, an acrobatic group, 12 to 27, were amazing! Loved it.
Chrisstian Stoinev and his little dog, are they the same that went to BGT?? I don’t know for sure, but anyway, he was really good, by himself and then with the added bonus of his little dog. Audition, quaterfinals, really really good

Singers:
-Justin Rhodes sang Wake me up well and nicely. 
-Jaycob Curlee, sang very nicely and they liked him a lot, Mel went to hug him.
-Legacy Boyband, four guys that sang well.
-Frank Dimitri, 74, sang ‘like’ Frank Sinatra. 
-Miguel Dakota sang well, but apparently the audience appreciated his looks too. 
-Paul Ieti, 21, army soldier, sang Stay well. Mel hugged him, and Heidi too, and then Howard. 
-Sons of Serendip, 26 to 30, three musicians and a singer, were good. A keyboard, a cello and an harp! I liked this a lot.
-Kelli Glover was amazing, she sang I have nothing and she sounded like Whitney Houston!
-Olanna and Ashley were opera singers, but I’d rather they sang separately. 
-The Willis Clan was adorable, twelve brothers and sisters, 3 to 21. They played and sang, with the 3-y-o dancing, and they were good too. 
-Sal Gonzales sang Ain’t no sunshine, and he did it very well, I liked it a lot. Good, because how would you say no to a nice guy who also is a wounded veteran?
-Beach Avenue, 27 to 31, three guys who played and sang their original song; I liked both them and the song, very nice indeed. ‘hhey hhey what do you ssay!’ etc, a catchy song.

Magicians:
-Mike Super, the mystifier, made a glass caraffe broke by releasing energy to his imaginary friend...
-Smoothini was good. Tricks I’ve seen many times, but what does that matter when it’s done so well? He was really good. I liked this act a lot. He was very very good, 
-Matt Franco was really good, I liked the presentation; it was a card trick, basically using all the cards in a card deck and turning exactly the ones he wants when he wants them, but he did it telling a story. 
-David & Leeman did a strange act where they touched Howie’s head and apparently he couldn’t read anymore... 

Comedians:
-Darik Santos was the awkward looking guy that made one-line jokes, some of them good. Not really my style, but I thought his introduction was funny :-p
-Joe Matarese, 46, was funny, even if some jokes were not really my style, I liked his delivery and I thought he was funny indeed. 
-Rachel Butera, 42, did impressions. I knew none of those people but I liked it anyway :-p
-Dan Naturman, 44,  was funny :-) At the semi-final Heidi felt offended, but I don’t think that was offensive. 
-Jodi Miller was lots of fun with her ‘men are like cats and women are like dogs’ routine! I liked it :)

Dancers:
-Sean & Luke, 17 & 18, were really good, modern dancing plus tiptapdancing. I really liked their act.
-Baila conmigo, a lot of people dancing salsa very fast, adults and little kids. They came from a dance school, and were very good. 
-I liked the four sisters and two brothers tapdancing together!
-Jasmine flowers, I liked them!

-John&Andrew dancing a salsa together were very good.

Britain's got talent

2018

-Sascha Williams; this guy was brilliant, he looked so plain and dull during the introductory conversation, and then he got up and started a crazy act, balancing a board on a tube, and adding a lot of stuff, he put on a great show! Very thrilling, exciting, and he had that scoundrel-smile that was very charming, and the assistant kissed him as if to make it clear: he’s mine :-p
-Giang Brothers from Vietnam were very impressive, it was a show of amazing strength and balance. It was great from the start, and it ended with one of them going down the stairs and then back up with his brother on his head! Wow.
-Ellie & Jeki from South Korea did a brilliant quick-change show, loved it. Very well done and very well played, playing to the music, putting on a great act, I loved them! I loved the act and the two of them so much that I was very sorry to admit that I wasn’t at all thrilled by their semi-final act. It was slow and there were only a few changes, not many like the first time; there never was a wow moment, and unfortunately there wasn’t even an awww moment. Their romantic act of the two of them meeting and him proposing to her was sweet, but nothing that surprised anyone, nothing that made people go awww. I still hoped they’d get through so to see them again, but they didn’t. They should have though.  
-The Greek guy was fun, he played a cord instrument and they all ran to the stage to throw plates and break them; after another thing he did, balancing glasses on his head, there was a little, a tiny piece of cloth on fire and Ant&Dec went “the stage is on fire” :-p come on! Dec actually ran there to pour water on it...

Comedians:
-Robert White, wow he was funny, he looked rather silly at first with his green shirt and shoes, but then he started going joke after joke, very funny, and he sang a little thing that contained jokes on all the four judges, which takes guts I think. He was very funny. 
-Andrew Lancaster did impressions, I liked him. He did Trump, Brian Cox (my fav of them), Russel Brand and another guy that I guess is probably in politics. 
-Lost voice guy, Lee, was a rather bizarre act since he had previously written it all on his machine and it said it out loud, but it was funny! Very funny jokes. Sure, that poor guy on agt would have done much better had he been able to record his lines, that time when he suddenly forgot everything and couldn’t go on...
-Noel James, 52, was funny, he’s the one who put down the guitar and used the cover :lol:
-Ross from Essex; Simon and Amanda buzzed, the others didn’t but didn’t like him anyway. I honestly can’t really judge because I didn’t understand a word he was saying....
-Ben Langley made his act by ‘mocking songs’, meaning that the showed how they can be misunderstood, like “only seventeen” could be heard as “only seven teeth”, and of course when you read it written down you think you hear it for real. 
-Micky Kerr, 36, was the one who picked on Simon for eating, and he was very funny: he sang the “absolutely amazing song”, and the other song about “the bag for life” that he had lost :lol: at first when he said “I’ve suffered a loss” they were all like, for real? It was very funny (and Simon had no idea what a bag for life was, I don’t think he makes many trips to supermarkets :-p ). I liked this act very much, it was fun! His semi-final was great too, he was my fav comedian this year, I liked his style and his silly jokes and his funny face, and most of all his ‘quiet’ comedy, loved it. Too bad at the final he used that song about arrogance, I didn’t like it, I suppose it was for comedy purposed and yet it kinda sounded arrogant for real, it wasn’t funny. Before that song, I was enjoying his act. 

Magicians:
-Marc Spelmann, the magician that ended his show with a video of his wife and little baby who had do undergo chemiotherapy as she was born. It was a heartbreaking story with a beautiful little girl involved, so of course he got a golden buzzer. From Ant and Dec. 
-Marcel, 34, is a fantasy illusionist. I read his stage name should be Magus Utopia. I liked the act, going to sleep, dreaming of monsters chasing him and trapping him, and waking up screaming, very good act. 
-Mandy Muden, 55, is a sort of comedian/magician. The magic was alright but the comedy part was lovely, I liked her act, she was fun! Her semi-final was less amazing, I mean the magic was good but we’ve seen that already, and on bgt as that, but she was again funny and I liked her a lot!
-Andrew Lee from Malaysia did a ‘card trick’, he found the card Dec had chosen, but by throwing blindfolded a knife at him !! Good act :-)
-Maddox, the guy with the smoothing voice that played with the Rubik’s cube, throwing it in the air and catching it solved! He also had Amanda do it :-)
-Professor Strange was the one that had previously been at Amanda’s kid’s birthday party, although she didn’t remember him at all. They buzzed him off, but I thought they were too harsh, it was funny and they should have let him finish. It was too silly for grown-ups ok, not something that could win BGT, but it would have been nice to let him show what he can do so other people could call him for their kids’ parties. I mean, sometimes they say yes to the most absurd things for no reason at all :-/
-Sora from Japan did a very bizarre act, by having them all choose a design of underwear, and then for a second they made it look like the assistant would strip, and then he did it and he wore the things they had chosen... very bizarre...

Dancers:
-DVJ, a dance crew, 10 to 18, were good. Funny  the moment when one of them ‘forgot’ to take off the black gilet :-p very nice. 
-David & Javier, the two guys from Barcelona/Mexico that danced together a samba (was it?) and they danced very well :-)
-Cali Swing, 9 to 14, danced Salsa very well. They were the kids in blue suit and yellow shirts, and were very good.
-Rise, a group of girls, one of them a survivor of the Manchester attack at the Ariana Grande concert. Great girls, keep it going.
-Lexie & Christopher, both 10, danced a good jive. Very young for a stage, though.
-Baba Yega, 5 guys aged 21 to 33, looking like identical aliens, danced to the song Ba-ba-ye-gaaa, and didn’t speak a word :-p
-Tap attack, were three girls and three boys put together by a mom, and they did an impressive tap-dancing choreography, I loved it. 

Singers:
-B Positive choir were really good, and a message to donate blood to help other people. 
-Jenny Darren,68, surprised them all with a rock song, serious rock I mean, and she did well, she rocks! “Highway to hell” she sang. 
-Father Ray Kelly,64, sang REM’s Everybody hurts. Very very well.
-Amy Marie Borg, 16, sang Nella Fantasia, but she was so very nervous. 
-The Ratpackers, 22 and..58 maybe?, sang New York New York. They had good voices, but at times were not really synchronized, I think. 
-Jack & Tim were a son/father duo, and they were really nice, and sang their own song “the lucky ones”, and it was really nice. Simon pressed the golden buzzer (without any crowd chanting, good)
-Donchez, 60, sang his own song WiggleWine. It was infectious, everybody liked it and wanted to dance to it. As he finished, David went for the golden buzzer. 
-D-Day Darlings, they were 9 women in uniform who perform for veterans, were really sweet. “we’ll meet again some sunny dayyy...”
-Aleksandar Mileusnic, 23, sang “seven nation army” very well, he was very charming. 
-Lifford sang “a change is gonna come”, he was good. A soul singer. Alesha, who knew him already and said right away he was good, pressed the golden buzzer. 
-Miss Tres, 35 to 43, from Philippines, came in as three pretty girls and then had big voices and sang Sex Bomb. 
-Ronan Busfield sang Maria from WestSideStory, he had quite a voice, and there’s a chance he could even do better since this time he was very nervous. 
-Sarah Llewellyn from USA did something very strange; in Amanda’s words “we’ve never had a sexy, cake-eating, opera singer”. Indeed not. 
-Gruffydd Wyn Roberts, 22, sang in Italian and quite good too. Simon stopped him and he changed to Nessun Dorma. He sang in a very good Italian, I can say, at least the first bit. He made a mistake but got it together and finished it. At the end he paused at the wrong moments, but did very well in the whole, and he had a great voice, and I liked the guy, and he had friends shouting for him, and he got Amanda’s golden buzzer. 
-Shaquille Rayes, 20, sang his own song dedicated to his dad, and it was very nice. 

2017


There was Simon’s little son in Blackpool, such a cute little thing *_*
It’s so annoying when the audience starts booing anytime the judges criticize something someone did, it’s really annoying and frankly quite rude! 
Also the bits when you hear what someone in the crowd says, that’s so fake and annoying.
Impressionist Jess Robinson was very good, but she only did singing impressions, so all singers + Sharon Osbourne. At the semi-final, she also did a bit of dancing, but that I thought affected her voice a bit. She was really good though, I liked her, I love impressions well done :-)
Liu Xin (her) and Goa Lin (the husband) did a brilliant performance, it was acrobatic and yet it was a very elegant dance, and the ending was amazing, with her so elegantly standing on tiptoe over his shoulder, with one leg only, they were so beuautiful... I loved them!
Charlie Dyson was the 9-y-o on the push scooter (monopattino) doing stunts, I mean he was 9!!! wow.
Musician Tokio Myers, 32, he was a pianist but added something like another keyboard doing something I didn’t exactly understand but they all loved it. I liked a lot hearing him playing the piano, he was good! It’s the rest I didn’t understand. I liked it, but didn’t really understand it. I gather he sort of mixed different musics together to make something whole and different. Where did the voice come from? From a recorded song that he used of he made them with the computer? I don’t know.
-Angara Contortion group were four Russian girls dressed in lucid green, great contortionists and with a good ‘choreography’. Great. They were like snakes but beautifully graceful and at the end they built a human totem :-p really good. 
Annette & Yannick performed on roller skates, basically just doing all the best lifts from the ice-skating pairs competition... I guess nobody there follows ice-skating... or maybe they did it before and the whole lot of ice-skaters copied them, who knows. What they called impressive was Hotarek’s lift of making the girl rotate only holding her with one hand.. 
DAN the ‘mind readers’ put on a good show, but at the semi-final was struck me more was that Simon couldn’t find the right page and word in the dictionary :-p and Amanda helped him :-p The performances were both good, but for me they talk a bit too much. I know they had to fill time, obviously, but not repeating the same thing two, three times, it becomes boring. 
Comedians:
-Jonny Awsum was funny, such a strange act, where he sort of parodied musicals, making Ant and Dec going up and down.. hard to describe it without seeing it but I liked it! “it is a musical feeeature with Ant and Deec” at first seemed rather strange but it became really awesome, enjoyable and entertainment. I loved his semi-final too, “the triangle song”, I loved it. 
-Daliso Chaponda was so funny, I laughed out loud before the act even started :lol: “Thou shall not swap” was the most hilarious thing, so so funny :lol: He was Amanda’s golden buzzer, but only after the crowd shouted for a while :-/ annoying. 

Magicians:
-Issy Simpson was the 8-y-o magician, the little bossy girl with style. Simon:”is it bad for me to call you a witch?” - “not in Harry Potter” , loved this, so cute. Simon”this is like real life Harry Potter” and she went “Awww”, so sweet. It was the act with the box that Simon and David said they couldn’t lift it but she could :-p Good presentation, the little girl, she was very cute and determined, but I kind of thought that she got so far in the competition because of her age..
-Josephin Lee was the blond girl, 29, that made 3 balls float and then two vanished and the third was suddenly herself. She was  really good!! At the semi-final she did a very good show too, with a bit of magic and a lot of show, with a good speech about women killed for being different and the assistant taking over the power and the stage. Simon found it irritating but as a girl I found it really good, and she is good. How do men put on a big show? Usually there are girls to distract the audience, she didn’t use that, she can’t, she’s the pretty girl people look at. After all, her trick was a very basic one, the get-in-the-box/disappear/reappear-elsewhere trick, but she put on a very good show around it. 
-Matt Edwards did, as he put it, crazy variety magic, it was so silly and funny I really liked it, the Tequila act, with the salt pouring forever from his hand... really funny :-p he was Ant&Dec’s golden buzzer, and the crowd chanted after they had started going for it :-) good. I liked the act and I liked him :-) nice.  The semi-final was very good too, he’s funny.
-Tanba was the crazy Japanese man with the yellow jacket who ‘swallowed’ a long balloon and some razor blades and strings and then pulled it off again. 

Singers:
-Sarah Ikumu is the 15-y-o who sang a very difficult song because it showed her vocal ability the best, and she did good. Big voice. And only 15, wow. Simon pressed the golden buzzer, she was great. That was a very adult performance!
-Reuben Gray was the 16-y-o who sang and played the piano, with his biggest fan, his dad, surprising him by being in the audience instead of at work. I liked him, good performance. 
-The Miss Treats were four girls. One of them had tried X-factor four years before as a solo, but I liked them as a group. I love groups where they all sing, because that brings something more. There are so many singers out there, and a group with four different voices is a good thing. Their semi-final was good too, they sang well and I liked their looks. They were very cool, they should go places. It was unbelievable that they were only third at the semi-final. 
-Sian Pattison was the 31-y-o mother of three, very scared, but with her second song she did well! 
-Martin and Faye were a father-daughter duo, sweet and good. They sang: the prayer, I know it from Bocelli and Celine Dion, and it was good, he had a great voice and she a sweet one. The Italian was , you know, very British, but they sang well.  I really liked them. At the semi-final they were even better. I thought he contained his voice so that hers would be shadowed, but they were really good. She’s really young, but they’re great. 
-Perfect Pitch choir were really good, a lot of kids, 9 to 14, the girls in a red dress and the boys in a white shirt and black jacket. 
-Angelicus Celtis Choir girls had beautiful lyric voices, and sang the female piece from Turandot although I couldn’t understand a word...
-Destiny Chukunyere sang Aretha Franklin’s Think. 
-Leah Barnville, 14, sang Caruso..
-Kyle Tomlinson, 15, was the one who came with a vengeance, he started it all by saying that two years before David had told him to get a singing teacher, and now Alesha tells him to go on and prove him wrong. They had fun against David and I get that, but Kyle did have singing lessons these two years so if he got better he should say thanks and not be angry! He was given an advice and he took it. Obviously after all this David used for him his golden buzzer, that was obvious, just like Alesha did with those girls. 
-Sue Moretta was the one who sang Rain on my parade coming out of the back, already singing while coming down the stairs. That was prepared, and I don’t like these things. She was good though. Beautiful and talented. Not sure why David pulled down his trousers, I really don’t. 

Dancers:
-Father and son John and Brandon Pohlhammer tapdanced and also sang a bit, and they were so nice dancing together (John was the one who wouldn’t say his age, only said it was similar to Simon’s and he went ‘ok 35’ :-p )
-Grace and Ali, 17 and 16, were very good. I loved them. At the semi-final she had a rope attached so she could fly through the stage: she was beautiful flying around, but they didn’t need that, they’re beautiful when they dance together and they need nothing more than music, lights and costumes. They should have been second, not third.
-Coventry Dynamite Cheerleaders, 24 people, doing a really cheerleading act, the serious one not just girls with ponpons, but the serious choreography with guys and girls, and jumps and stunts and serious athletics.
-All In Dance crew, the six guys who performed a sort of Game Of Thrones dance routine, and very well. They were good and I liked the choreography very much. It don’t get why they weren’t chosen among the semi-finalist dance-acts. 
-Code 3, three girls 14 to 16, with cut-short-hoodies and looking very nice although David said they were in pajamas, they were cool, I liked them. 
-David Geaney, the Irish guy whose legs flipped in the air while he sort of tapdanced/riverdanced. Don’t know what he did exactly but he was very good, cute and very nice. Simon didn’t like the music and maybe that’s why it was changed at the semi-final... which was a shame because the first music suited him much better, the second ‘over the rainbow’ had nothing to do with his dancing. He was still incredible, though. Wow. He was amazing! Simon didn’t clap and didn’t like it, but I don’t agree with him, I liked this guy a lot and I thought he was brilliant and specially with the first music he was something I’d have watched again and again. I will probably. 
-Empire Dance Troupe, a lot of guys and girls, were good too. 

2016

Lucy and her little dog TripHazard, such a cutie, adorable little thing, it was a lovely act, well done, loved it. 
Darren Altman did impressions. I liked it.
The Togni brothers did that circus act when one is lying with his feet up and the other sits on them and is thrown up and down doing acrobatics, I explain it very badly but luckily I’ll understand what I mean if I ever get back here reading this. 
The Spartans were a big group and did gymnastics very well, and not disguising it as dancing, Good.
The Dunkin Devils played basketball in an acrobatic way, with the red basketball shirts and shorts revealed after taking off the black jackets and trousers. 
Charlie from France got wet into a bath and then did acrobatics hanging on two sort of ropes. 

Magicians:
-Soldier Richard did a good show, I didn’t think it was that great a magic trick but still it was a very good show, you know, the electric touch, the heating of the can with his hands, and also the ‘I’ve spent six years in an origami center in Japan’..
-Christian Lee called himself a magician but he’s also a comedian I’d say :lol: he’s the one that called Amanda on the stage and then put a huge red balloon on his head, his ‘mind enhancing device’, and when he took it off the Titanic music started and Amanda opened her arms like in the movie, it was fun! At the semi-final he had David on stage who, for some reason, was not very cooperative, I don’t know why but he never even smiled while the other was making jokes, which kinda ruined it because seeing him on stage not laughing kinda stops one from laughing at home.  
Singers:
-12-y-od Beau Dermott (a girl) sang Defying Gravity enchanting Amanda and gaining her golden buzzer: again, I hated it that the crowd shouted for the golden buzzer, it makes it all sound fake. She should do musicals though, she’s good.
-Wayne Woodward is the 20-y-o that sounds incredibly like DannyDyer when he speaks, but then is incredible when he sings! Very good, and nice guy too. I liked him a lot. He sang ‘just the way you look tonight’ at the audition.
-Kathleen Jenkins, the woman who came with the black and red dress (black with red flowers) and with white socks, and looked very nice. She had her father and her husband in the audience, and she sang very well, I liked her a lot, they were all in silence listening carefully and Simon was the first to stand up and clap. She said she was nervous but she did very well, I loved her audition. Simon: “Kathleen I’ve been waiting for you all day, someone who’s just got it”. I  think she sang very well at the semi-final too, although I would have chosen a different song. “one day I’ll fly away” is a beautiful song, anyway. I’m really sorry that Britain didn’t fulfill Simon’s prediction and didn’t back her up and she didn’t go to the final, that was a shame, mostly because he didn’t back her up as well, with David and Alesha voting for her and Amanda voting for the mother-son-hugs, he could have said her name... maybe I say this because I’m emotional and not a businessman, and yet she deserved that place in the final and he should have said her name! That’s the most disappointing thing I’ve ever seen or heard him doing! 
-Emma the primary school teacher: “if anybody presses that buzzer there’s gonna be 35 angry children waiting for them” :lol: she sang well enough.
-Presentation School Choir, the Irish Choir, presented by Veronica who looks cute in her nice glasses according to Simon :-p I liked her because she was very elegant and lady-like, and the choir consisted of 57 girls and at the audition they sang I think an Irish song? It was very good, I liked it a lot. 
-Craig sang Wrecking Ball using the voices of Morgan Freeman, Micky Mouse, Christopher Walken, and also Muppets, South Park, and Gollum!!!! It wasn’t as good as the American Daniel, but he was nice, I liked it. 
-Ruby Murry, real name Tom, sang Nessun Dorma. The pronunciation was good enough, although not perfect, because for example like many English-speaking people he couldn’t say ‘stelle’.
-Vox Fortis, as the name says, had very powerful voices, and were five men, so kind of the black answer to Collabro. They were really good, but it was all a choir, they didn’t sing separately. Why were they called Vox Fortura at the semi-final?? Anyway, I liked their rendition of Bowie’s Heroes. 
-The Garnett Family consisted of three daughters and their mom, and they were good. 
-Rachel Wooding, 37, was the musical theatre actress who stopped when she had her little baby, now 11 months old. She sang very well indeed! She was the blonde one with black heels and nervous legs :-p
-Josh Curnow, singer songwriter with a sort of BrianAdams voice, also playing the piano. I liked it. 
-Morgan Smith, 15, sang Spotlight to show her vocal ability. It started really terrible imo, and Simon asked a second song, and was better, although not my style.
-Fia and her mother Ana were very good and nice, all the best. They were both very very good.
-Zyrah, four pretty girls, 25 to 28 I think, who sang very well. 
-Danny Beard, with the yellow glitter beard, sand Sweet Transvestite very well :-)
-Melanie and her son Jamie, 15. They were good, and I guess people liked their mother-son hugs.

Dancers:
-Another kind of blue is that couple that danced on a video playing showing the sky and stuff so that it looked like they were falling and stuff like that. I don’t know about this.
-Shannon and Peter, the dancers who got married, had children, stopped dancing for years and now started it again together, were really good together, I liked them. 
-Kronos, a dance group of kids wearing black jackets, plus a girl in red appearing at the end.
-Saulo Sarmiento, 28 from Canary Island, introduces himself to three flirty judges :-p and then did his act, sort of pole dancing but with a moving pole, and was really really good. 
-Déjà vu, a group from Glasgow, with the white shirt and British-flag-papillon.
-Total TXS, five kids 16 to 19.

2015

All those videos where terrible auditions were buzzed by Amanda and Alesha and even David, but Simon didn’t and instead he clapped, or sang along, or stared with an estatic expression on his face were really funny. Obviously I never saw it on tv, because it never aired here, and I do wonder a bit how it really went, did he really clap and said yes to those terrible auditions? Well there were already three buzzers, so it was safe enough I guess. I suppose he was having a bit of fun, doing to the others what they usually do to him :-p 
The only funny thing about the hypno-dog act was seeing Simon on his knees :-p (sorry..). Oh wait, did this happen before? So maybe Simon didn’t buzz because he was pretending to having been hypnotized to be nicer? Mah.
Anyway, I love Amanda, and this is the year when that guy in the white shirt ruined Let It Go with a hard-rock singing :-p she was so upset :-p
I guess Simon was joking when he called Dec to translate what the DJ John from Newcastle was saying, come on, it was perfectly clear to me, not even a little bit difficult!
Marc Métral and his act where he makes it look like his dog Wendy talks, I never liked that, it was creepy and unnatural, and the dog looked like a puppet, a fake dog not a real one, her mouth was mechanical, I hated that act. Maybe the judges and the audience were too distant to see it as we could see it, and maybe that’s why they were all amazed... I didn’t like this at all.
The Kanneh-Masons, a family, six kids all playing instruments: 1 piano, 3 violins and 2 cellos.. I think. Well the cellos have the point at the end so this should be right.  Wow, what a family, they were good
Comedian impressionist Andrew Fleming started out on the wrong foot by telling them that a lot of celebrities were simply lucky but are not worth much: “do you see people on tv and think I’m better than they are?” - “I do yeah”; “if there was an MOT test for people on television a lot of ‘em would fail”; but then his performance was really good and funny, and you know what, it was a bit of a shocker at first, but if you think about it he’s right of course, I don’t know the whole of British television but it certainly is true here! And from the bit I’ve seen I’d say it’s true over there too. I can’t say I liked his semi-final though, it was rather plain, the impressions were good but it wasn’t funny. I was surprised that the girls buzzed at the same time, and rather sorry when I saw his hurt face, but it simply wasn’t funny to me, and I thought it as soon as I saw them what are the dancers doing here, it should be just him, that’s how impressions work! But I still think he’s good, very good. If I were in Britain and I could afford it, I would pay to see him live.

Jamie Raven the magician did a good card trick, he’s the one who used the “BGT’s banknotes”, very good. Simon: “I now actually believe in magic” :-p
35-y-o Lisa Sampson with her hoola-hoops was really nice and funny, and very very good, I loved her
Vladimir Georgeski or something, doing a good act with a trampoline. Very good and funny.
Danny Posthill the comedy impressionist was good, and his Michael McIntyre was spot-on! His semi-final was even better, and for once there were lots of character-impressions I did actually know! It was lots of fun, and also one of the best impressions of Dec I’ve ever seen :-p It was really really good:lol
Cute Jessie or Jessica from Ireland was a nine-year-old sweet little thing, and then she started screaming and doing martial arts with a sword :-p  They were all in shock :-p
Leo Bailey-Yang was the 7-y-o boy who played the piano blindfolded!
-Jules and her dog Matisse: I loved them so much, the dog was adorable and beautiful, and they made a lovely act where she was a dog catcher and he would run away from her at first and then win her over :-) and then at the final Matisse did something even better, I don’t know how he managed to walk on that rope, I was glad she was under it waiting to catch him in case he should fall. Matisse and her other dogs love her so much, it’s so nice to watch that. And they won!!

Singers: 
-Calum Scott did a great audition, I loved how he sang that song. The finale was good too, he had a little moment of lost voice but he got back into it and did very well, I like how he sings.
-Becky, the mother of 5, sang Over the Rainbow very well, his son was right when he said “why don’t you show Simon Cowell how it’s done?” :-p lovely. 
-Revelation Avenue, the choir than only did in-house-rehearsal up to this point, sang Roar and gained Amanda’s golden buzzer.
-15-y-o Isaac Waddington played the piano and sang She’s always a woman by Billy Joel. It was a good act, I like it when they all go silent listening to something sweet.
-Misstasia, the four girls who love everything Princesses, were really good and nice, and Amanda smiled all the way thru it, and called them “Cinderella Ariel Belle and Snow-white”. Simon went “your target audience is three-year-olds and Amanda” ... and me too :-) They sang Let it go at the semi-final and they were very pretty :-) and all four sing very well and they should do Disney musicals! ♥️♥️♥️
-The Neales, the three nice brothers with the father who had had an heart attack so they made him sing to relax. 
-Maia Gough, the 10-y-o fan of Whitney Houston. A bit nasal for me. 
-Alison Jiear, powerful voice
-Gracie, the 10 or 12 year-old girl who sang Over the rainbow, very very well.
-The Sakyi Five, they didn’t resemble the Jackson five only in the team name, but also they were four guys with a child, but unlike the others here I liked them all, they were all good singers; without any big stars like MJ of course, but that’s not easy to do.
-The Kingdom Tenors, 12 guys from 21 to 31, singing You raise me up. They were good, but when they sang together there was something off for me, kind of off-beat, but maybe it’s just me.
-Emma Jones, 23, had a beautiful voice, she sang Ave Maria. It was touching how she was lowering her shoulders in fear before, and then she sang and had an angelic voice. She should have had a place in the final, she is wonderful, I absulutely loved her voice, I hope she’s going on with the singing, a voice like that must be heard and enjoyed, angelic and soul-touching.
-Lorraine Bowen is the one who came out with a pianola to sing her Crumble Song, she was funny and she wasn’t at all put off by the three buzzers she got right away, she went on with style, and got David’s golden buzzer! This song was, you know, like a B-movie, something that is not good but is enjoyable for some strange reason: “everybody’s good at cooking some-thing, And I am good at cooking crumble” :-p At the semifinal she was laughing while singing :-p Simon’s face was like horrified :-p 
-The HoneyBuns, six women who sang “Raining men”; they were very good, and funny too “we met at weightwatchers” :lol: I liked them a lot. and they reacted very well to Simon’s comments: “I don’t know that we could fit in a cruise ship” was brilliant. Not only they kept it polite but they turned it funny and nice. 

Dancers:
-Boyband , they’re called, but “no no we’re a dance act” :-p lovely, 5 nice boys with a good routine, they were Ant and Dec’s golden buzzer. 
-IMD dance group, ages 9 to 18, were good too.
-Jonathan. Solo dancing is not really my thing, but he was good. 
-Old men grooving, the group of five not-so-young-men who surprised everybody with their modern dancing
-Entity, ages 10 to 15, with the brother of a girl who was apparently on X-factor.  They were Alesha’s golden buzzer. 
-UDI, from ..Siberia? They did that strange show blue vs red, with the place all dark and showing only what they wanted to show, with two guys leading characters and the others making the choreography in the dark. There were 8 or 10 maybe?
-The Beat Brothers, five guys tap-dancing, I liked that.

2014

(Amanda looked so nice when she put that cowboy hat on her head :D )
Darcy Oake’s dove illusions : amazing!
I loved the puppet Patsy May’s audition! Very funny! (the blue puppet with the purple hair). At the semi-final though she sang but there was no comedy. Her strong point was the comedy.
Sam Jones did well at the audition, I like ventriloquism when it’s funny and well done.

Singers:
-Collabro did an amazing audition, as soon as I saw that it was obvious they had to win! Ah when they were still getting along all five of them, I liked the band a lot, and the “natural chemistry” among them, and the different voices together... of course it couldn’t last like that right? “This is the sound we want to make” and then Richard changed his mind apparently. All five are very good, but I loved the combination.
-Jack Pack, the four guys singing That’s life, were good, yes.
-REAformed, the group of three girls (15,18 and 21, the latter the girl that met Alesha a few years ago and Alesha told her to stick to education first, and the other judges laughed at her for this :-p), were Alesha’s golden buzzer. 
-Bars & Melody, the two kids singing, one melodious and the other one rapping, a song about bullies. They were Simon’s golden buzzer, I only wished he hadn’t waited so long, I hate it when the crowd shouts for them to push the golden buzzer, it’s really annoying and it makes it look like the judge is forced to do it, but maybe wouldn’t have otherwise. Two lovely kids. All the best.
-Ed Drewett, I liked his voice very much and also the song ‘I have the power to change the world’, it’s not true but it was a beautiful song nonetheless. Clap clap. Is there a record of it?
-SweetChix, a band of five girls: one looking very BaysideSchool, a blond one doing rap, one with a cap, plus another blond and one with big hair. Very good audition. 14 to 16 years old, I liked their look, their different clothes but all black and white, and I liked them, hoping they’ll stay best friends. A bit of fame and everybody changes, usually. 
-Jodi Bird sang Don’t rain on my parade, and she should go on doing musicals!

Dancers:
-Lauren and Terrell, the kids who did street dancing, the blond girl and the black boy, were really good!
-Paddy & Nico... what can I say, she’s famous in Italy too, I think that of all the BGT people including the judges she’s the most famous in Italy. Susan Boyle is known too, but this year Paddy is the famous one, because she danced at the Festival di Sanremo, three times I think, during the performance of a contestant band. It was almost 80 when she auditioned! And it was February 2018 when she danced here! 83 years-old! wow! Paddy and Nico had done other performances before that, but Sanremo is the biggest show in Italy, so after that her face was everywhere.
She was the first ever Golden Buzzer I think.
-Christian Spridon was David’s golden buzzer, after the other three had given him the red buzzer :-p and pressed the fourth too! I think Christian wasn’t sure of how to react the first few seconds there, I would have been like “so, am I through or not?” :p If I’m not mistaken this was the first year with the golden buzzers. At first I would have buzzed too, but I was also glad for him because he reacted very nicely, and although he’s not a good singer he did better in the semi-final and he’s a fun enterteiner.
-Innova Irish Dance Company, the group of girls in red, I loved them!
-The Cartel group was good, the five guys, four boys and an older guy :-p
-Kings and Queens with their latino dance were very good, the guys in black and the girls in red.
-17-y-o Kieran danced “the tin man”, very good.
-Terri and Lisette were very good pole-dancers
-Emma Haslam was another pole dancer, the 27-y-o big lady who did prove that she’s good at her job, very good indeed.

-Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Mehdi were the three French guys dancing on hells, and they danced well and very elegantly. 
-The Addict Initiative, a group of dancers in black with a very interesting routine during their audition, about a witch hunt, with a girl in white appearing towards the end for the final battle. Impressive. It’s annoying when they cut the videos, not showing the presentation an the comments, anyway on another, longer video (not by BGT) I heard Simon say that they are refreshingly evil..

Curtis Elton was a 10-y-o boy playing the piano very well.
Jon Clegg did impersonations, I guess he was good but not my style.
The stunt riders were really good, but I wonder if the judges have ever watched FMX before, some riders can do amazing things. 
Violinist Lettice Rowbotham’s audition was incredible, really good, but I think she was drunk :-p and her sober semifinal wasn’t as good because she just stand still and played. She still played very well of course, but it wasn’t as impressive for an audience of people who are not experts. The final was cool though. 

2013

Francine Lewis did impressions, people I didn’t recognize of course, but she was likeable and funny and good. At the semifinal she was funny too, although I couldn’t understand a word :lol: 
Luminites, a group with three boys and a girl with a very sweet singing voice. One sang with her, one played the guitar and sang a little, the other did beatbox, and they were nice and good.
Dancers:
Martin and Marielle, he was throwing her all over the place. 
Joseph Hall who started a very classical dance and ended very modern. 
Poppin Ron, unfortunately the audition video was so short, like 30 seconds :-/ but seemed good, and yet his act at the semifinal was rather boring, maybe there was some choreography that I didn’t understand. 
Philip Green the comedian, the tall wobbly guy doing impressions - I didn’t understand half of what he said during his act, but he was funny anyway
Rosie O’Sullivan sang It’s a man’s world greatly. 
Little Arisxandra sang Whitney Houston amazingly at the semifinal
Richard & Adam were indeed very good, big voices, although not my favs.
Illusionists Stevie Pink made a girl levitate very well, only the girls buzzed too early but he finished anyway, and James More, who did an amazing act involving a sword through his body.
The a cappella group Band of Voices singing Price Tag
Beautiful singer Aliki who sang Wake me up and who battled encefalite
Modupè the girl with the guitar. At the semi-final she had no guitar though, and played it popstar. I liked her audition more. 
Young Gabz, I didn’t really like her singing at the audition but I liked the song The One and she said she wrote it herself, and she was only 14! Wow. That’s impressive! Specially since I sometimes think that there are much more singers or wanna-be-singers than there are good songs! But she sang it much much better at the semifinal! Less scared and with the look of one enjoying it! Thumbs up girl! 

2012:

Finally we have Alesha, David, Amanda and Simon. Good. Do not change that.
Singers:
-Sam Kelly, sweet singing from this 19-y-o guy, good.
-Charlotte & Jonathan, the opera duo, 16 and 17, were great! Great! And I’d like to compliment Jonathan’s pronunciation! Very good, the best I’ve ever heard on BGT! Really, has he got some Italians in the family? He pronounces the words right and he knows where to pause unlike all the others!!! Really good!!! But let me say that when she sings in English she’s really good too, different but really good, I like her voice. 
-The Welsh Choir Only boys aloud was really really good! And they sang in Welsh (I guess) and it was awesome. 
-The Mend were four guys, rather good. 
-Ryan O’Shaughnessy, still in college, sang a beautiful song that he wrote himself! No name, very nice song. To a mysterious girl.. I was actually glad he didn’t name anyone when Simon insisted, in a way it made it more ‘real’, if you know what I mean. 
-Tony Roberts the pub singer was good, but the audition video was so short I don’t know why Simon stopped him... and then I found a longer video and yet I still don’t know what he had against him because David didn’t let him speak :-p
-The Showbears act was funny and entertaining; they didn’t ‘really’ sing so well, and yet any event they were performing at would be the better off because of them :-p To be funny and entertaining is a great thing, and then the audience will sing loudly along :-p
-Hope Murphy, the teenage girl from Essex already singing locally; she sang well, and I’m glad Simon made her change song because even if I don’t know what she was going to sing before, I find it annoying when they start with the noises, the huh! and such, I find it annoying unless you’re already a superstar and the crowd is yelling before the music even starts.
-Lauren Thalia: I mean, a 12-y-o playing the guitar and singing well at the same time, wow. 
Dancers:
-That ‘Sugar Dandies’ couple, the two married men, were very good at ball-dancing, but they both wore black and it was hard to see one from the other’s legs at times..
-United we stand, a dance group, was good. Much like many other groups, and yet it’s always nice to see on BGT that some people can actually dance together in a synchronized way, it’s a rare thing on tv outside this talent show..
-The couple with the woman on the wheelchair were something, thumbs up! They managed a pretty nice routine, with classic and modern music, well done. 
Ashley Elliott (a boy) played the xylophone, and it was a rather fascinating performance, I liked it.
Ashleigh (the 16-y-o girl) and her dog Pudsey were lovely, they were good and it was adorable to watch the adoring dog following her. 
I loved the basketball acrobatics team!
I loved impressionist Marea Smithson, she was really funny, and for once I could recognize someone, the hot of the Weakest link, and it was perfect.
Violinist Analiza Ching was impressive, too bad I didn’t see the audition, only the semifinal.
Geisha Davis.. a black girl with the face white as a geisha, who did a very bizarre routine on humpty dumpty, she even had a book “rip humpty dumpty”, and her singing was terrible.. but when instead of singing she spoke at the end of the act, it was better, it was impressive, there was something about it.. I think she may have been right when she said she was an artist.. had she spoken with an important tone of voice instead of singing, she would have done great, and with a clearer ending..
Mention to contortionist Lucky, the “I don’t know what to do with myself” kicking her head with her foot.. unfortunately the video was so short I saw very little of her audition :-( Her semifinal was really good though!

2011

What happened to the panel, where is Simon??? I like David Hassellhoff, but... and the comedian McIntyre, I want David Walliams as soon as possible.. Anyway, at least Simon joined them at the semifinals, he only missed the auditions. They had some rather dull things at the semifinal, and he buzzed a lot, I wonder if he had any part in deciding who would get through. I was certainly surprised that he didn’t buzz more. This year’s BGT was like a mockery here and there, with absurd comments (make your eyes pop out more... seriously? you want them in your hand Simon? come on..)
My favs were Jai McDowall, Out of the blue, Les Gibson and of course Donelda and her dogs. 
Donelda Guy and her two dogs were really good. At the semifinals they were even better, 
Impressionist Les Gibson was good and also did Dec :-p basically the only one I knew :-p
Singers:
-Michael Collings and his guitar were very very good, I liked his voice a lot, what was the song, Fast cars?? Not sure..
-Edward Reid sang very well what I think is the Ba ba sheep song...
-Out of the Blue, the guys from Oxford, did something very original, some crazy and funny version of LadyGaga I think
-Jay McDowall did very well, some big song I didn’t know. 
Dancers:
-Razy Gogonea was good, mechanic in the best way, I can’t describe it, the guy all in black. 
-Two and a half men, three guys with black shirts, had a good act, funny :-)
-Michael and Razy, they danced separately with no audience.. but they were both good. Michael was cuter but I liked Razy’s act more. Glad they both got their shot at the semifinal. There was sure plenty of space for them both..
The highwaymen, a band of royal marines playing drums, with a black mask and hat, were good, but they got two no and only one yes. I know there’s not much room for entertainment but they were really good. People shouted a lot, and Amanda and Michael withdrew their no.... and it was all in vain, such a big scene and then they weren’t accepted to the semifinal.. well they should have!
Pianist Paul Gbegbaje was very good, and I loved his piece at the semifinal; it was the Earth Song, wasn’t it? 
Joe Oakley did stunts on his bike, and he was good, not the best but good.
Reece Daly was a 15-y-o ventriloquist, he was good but I think he should learn to keep it cool, more calm and controlled, but the ventriloquism was good, hope he goes on with it. (well, went on, since this was seven years ago :-p ). He kind of made me anxious.
The Britney Spears impersonator, or tribute act, however it’s called, Lorna Bliss was a really beautiful girl, but not a good enough singer, she should have concentrated on the dance and let go of the singing, and yet they were unfair to her I think. She was basically naked at the audition but did very little otherwise and they put her through to the semifinal and then they smashed her, told her she should have done more, that she should have gone a step further, what did they want, for her to come on the stage completely naked this time? At least Amanda commented on her act. When she spoke I thought she was nice, and I wonder if she went on with this act, maybe focusing on the dancing..

2010:

Dancers:
-Tobias Mead was great, with the joker face on the back of his head, dancing backwards as if he was facing forward.
-A.K.A. dance group, a lot of them all dressed in gold. 
-Twist and pulse, two boys doing a strange rather funny dance routine, good.
-I liked the Ice group of girls, and also their teachers, well done all.
-Peridot, very good. 
-Diversity; very good because they didn’t just dance, they created a show.
Tina and her beautiful dog Chandi, actually danced together a real routine! And Simon was not among the judges..
Spellbound, gymnastics, very good, and good choreography. 
Singers:
-Christopher Stone who sang Maria Maria Mariiiia, who was petrified.
-Connected, five boys from 13 to 15 years old. They were good, but what Simon said was also right, although it’s difficult to create a new fashion or a real identity at 13.
-Young Olivia Archbold singing ‘in the arms of the angels’ had a very melodious voice. 
-80-y-o Janey Cutler from Glasgow had a powerful voice, she must have been really something a few years back - too bad I only understood half of what she said while not singing.
-Liam McNally was 14 I think, and sang opera beautifully, 
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Different dreams were two girls, best friends, and I felt really bad watching that video because for the first time after watching lots and lots of videos I thought the judges had been really cruel, splitting the girls and then saying no anyway, they should have said no from the start, they had heard her voice already. It was true that one can sing and the other can’t, it’s not the end of the world, lots of amazing people can’t sing, and yet to be able to say that they had heard both of them already, there was no reason for making one girl sing again without the other, I don’t know why Simon asked her to go solo. I really hope they’re still friends.
Myztikal were very goodat the audition up to a certain point, when the second girl started to sing Wonderwall, because she couldn’t sing - or maybe she was too exhausted from the dance, anyway they should have thought about it before. They were given a chance and did better in the live show (still some things to polish though). I don’t know if these videos, auditions, ecc are completely real or if they are sort of fabricated, and everybody is just playing a part, but if this video was real and things happened exactly like this, then I wonder why they risked it, well why she risked it, unless she didn’t understand it was mainly about her, but if she did get the message then she should have said something, like ‘If my singing is the problem I won’t sing anymore and only dance’. 
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A woman gave Amanda some sort of bunny-ears and she looked so cute :-)

2009:

Susan Boyle of course, that was outstanding
Jamie Pugh, he was terrorized but sang Bring Him Home beautifully, really. I think he made a wrong song choice at the live show, something sounded very wrong there.
12-y-o Callum Francis who sang and danced Consider Yourself as if in a Oliver play.
Shaun Smith, 17, one of my favourite voices. The one Simon said “nothing to do with the money?” to.
Violinist Sue Son. 12-y-o Kieran Gaffney, great drummer.