Jamie Pugh – Britain’s Got Talent

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Jamie Pugh is currently second favourite to win Britain's Got Talent

With the semi-finals in site, Jamie Pugh is currently second favourite to win Britain’s Got Talent. Ladbrokes are currently offering odds of 6-1 that Jamie Pugh will win the competition. Susan Boyle is still odds on favourite to win with odds of 4-5.

Holly Steel and Shaheen Jafargholi are joint third favourites at 8-1 and last week’s entrant Shaun Smith is at 9-1. The opera singing Greg Pritchard is currently at 25-1, whilst Soprano Sax playing Julian Smith is at 16-1. Breast revealing Fabio Cerra currently has the longest odds at 100-1.

But will it all change tonight?

Jamie Pugh performed as part of a group at the Haymarket in 2006

It has come to light that Jamie Pugh has previously performed in the West End. In 2006, he appeared in Star EFX Sunday Night Live – an event set up to showcase new talent – at Her Majesty’s theatre in Haymarket, London. The theatre is a 1,200-seat venue that is currently hosting the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Phantom of the Opera.

He sang a medley of Rod Stewart hits with a group of six other performers,  and performed a solo of Louis Armstrong’s What A Wonderful World.

A number of the daily newspapers are accusing Jamie Pugh of “fibbing” about not having appeared on stage in the West End before. The story probably broke in The Sun newspaper, who on their website have the video on Jamie’s 2006 West End performance (also available below).

There has been a certain degree of outraged indignation from the newspapers, because when Simon Cowell asked Jamie: “Out of interest have you ever done anything like this, where you’ve sung with an audience like this?”Jamie replied: “No!

“I suffer severe stage fright. It cripples me really. I’ve come here today to see if I can get through three minutes.

“I’m just a simple bloke from The Valleys and my dream is to sing at the Royal Variety.“

Jamie has responded to the allegations, saying: “I have previously performed as part of a group but I never sang alone. It didn’t go that well.”

My Opinion

So what if Jamie performed as part of a group in a new talent showcase – that’s what undiscovered people do to try and get noticed. He was on stage with 12 other people, not as a solo performer. It is not like he is hiding a professional past, or hiding an agent, or a previous recording contract. He truthfully answered Simon’s question under the pressure of the moment that no, he had never done anything like this before as a solo artiste (a solo part in a group doesn’t count).

Jamie was obviously really nervous before Saturday’s performance. He was not putting it on, anyone could see that. And to be honest, his nerves are apparent in the video of the start of his West End solo. He is completely off key until he calms down and gets into the song.

Jamie, don’t let it get you down! There’ll be another story to take everyone’s attention tomorrow. We still love you!

See Jamie’s previous West End performance here:

Jamie Pugh today appeared alongside Sue Son on “This Morning”, and was interviewed by Philip Schofield and Fern Britten about his amazing talent, and overcoming his nerves.

“Most people don’t know I even sing,” said Jamie. He added: “I’ve kept it very quiet.

“Only close people know that I sing.”

Philip Schofield suggested that Jamie would need to have “nerves of steel” to sing Bring Him Home from Les Miserables on National TV.

“It is that song Bring Him Home. I was lucky enough to see the musical as a child. The music is phenomenal.”

Philip suggested to Jamie that he must have been “quaking in his boots” when he had to hold the last note of the song. “That’s the bit of the song I fear the most,” said Jamie. “Because you know it’s coming.

“Anyone who knows the song know’s it’s the money note.”

Jamie Pugh admitted that he used to show off as a child, singing and dancing to Michael Jackson songs. Philip asked why he had become so shy and nervous since that time.

“As you grow older, you start to think about things more, you start to overthink,” Jamie explained.

Philip asked Jamie how he will be if he wins and has to appear in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance.

“To be honest, I don’t really think about that, I have to cross each bridge as I come to it,” he replied.

We’re right behind you Jamie!

Jamie Pugh and his voice coach, Andrea Beardshaw, have been explaining Jamie’s shyness in an interview with the Daily Mirror. Jamie first went to see Andrea to improve his breathing and pronunciation whilst singing, but initially was too shy to sing in front of her.

“It took a while to sing in front of her”, he revealed.

Andrea added: “He was so nervous and shy at first – he had no confidence. He had a cracking voice but he had no idea what to do with it.

“The first thing he sang for me was Bring Him Home – the song he performed on Britain’s Got Talent. I’m super-proud of him.”

Jamie Pugh on Celeb.TV

Celeb.TV is an American entertainment website featuring the latest news and videos about celebrity. They have created the following clip about Jamie:

Jamie Pugh has been speaking for the first time to WalesOnline about the death of his first wife Tracey.

Jamie impressed the audience and judges with his rendition of  Bring Him Home from Les Misérables.

But Jamie, who is currently second favourite to win the show after Susan Boyle – said he deliberately didn’t reveal that his wife Tracey died from a brain tumour 10 years ago because he didn’t want the sympathy vote.

Jamie said: “It was a wicked thing to happen, it was unbearable.

“Tracey would be proud of me, but everybody has a history and I chose not to dwell on it.

“Things like this devastate millions of families.”

He added that he didn’t want to become like Daniel Evans on last year’s X Factor, who was accused of taking advantage of the fact that his wife Jacqueline had died six days after giving birth.

He said: “It’s like Daniel Evans in last year’s X Factor. People latched on to him because of his sob story.

“I don’t want that. It’s not what this competition is about.”

Daniel Who?

Good for you, Jamie!

So far over 30,000 people have watched the audition of Jamie Pugh on YouTube. Jamie is now being seen as a rival to Susan Boyle, although he has yet to match the number of people (50,000,000) who have watched Susan’s audition to date. Nevertheless, Jamie’s audition has only been on the site for two days, Susan’s has been there for more than 3 weeks now.

Jamie is now second favourite to win the competition, which would give him a £100,000 prize and the opportunity to perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Show.

Jamie’s audition has yet to attract the 50 million YouTube hits Susan Boyle’s clip has enjoyed, but his performance was enough to make him second favourite to win the TV competition.

In The Sun newspaper today, Piers Morgan stated that he has received more texts about Pizza Delivery man Jamie Pugh than he did about the Hairy Angel, Susan Boyle. Piers said: “I’ve never had so many texts about one contestant.

“We could all tell just what it meant to him to be fulfilling his dream. He got a standing ovation from 2,000 people. Nobody can take that away.”

I have some questions that need answering though. Who are all these people who are texting Piers? How do they have his phone number? Are they texting Simon Cowell aswell? Have you texted Piers or Simon? Did you get a reply? Post on this site if you did, we’d love to hear about it.

Well, it’s happened. Demi Moore, the A list celebrity with a fascination for Britain’s Got Talent, has tweeted! She has viewed the video of Jamie Pugh’s audition and left the message: “So moving. Teary again, wow!” and referred to Jamie as being “amazing”.

Now, when Demi posted a video of Susan Boyle on her website, thousands of people viewed it and the rest is history.
Could the same thing be about to happen for Jamie Pugh?

The Sunday People have revealed a secret tragedy that Jamie Pugh kept hidden from the millions of viewers and judges of Britain’s Got Talent last night. His wife died from a brain tumour when she was just 27 years old.

Jamie Pugh’s friends have revealed that the former RAF engineer was “a broken man” 10 years ago when his wife Tracey died – leaving Jamie to bring up son, three year old Callum, alone.

The friend added: “It’s still tough for Jamie. He didn’t want to break down talking about Tracey on air.”

Jamie told his friends that he didn’t reveal his private heart ache because he didn’t want the “sympathy vote”.

However, now Jamie has a new love in his life, Donna Davies, 35 years old, who supported him through his audition for Britain’s Got Talent. And the two have a son together – Ethan, three. Jamie credits Donna with helping him beat the stage fright which has prevented him from reaching his potential in the past.

It has been revealed that Jamie failed the first round of auditions last year when he couldn’t even speak his name. But Donna put his name forward again and accompanied him to the auditions.

Jamie said: “Donna was the reason I had the courage to go for it. I am petrified of singing in public – my hands shake and I completely clam up. I thought the audience at the audition were going to throw tomatoes at me, so I was amazed with the response.”

Last night’s performance from Jamie was stunning and he is now truly in a position to challenge the supremacy of Susan Boyle. He said: “I want to try singing. I need to find out who I am and if I can do this for real.”