Jonathan and Charlotte from Essex pretty much made the entire BGT audience at the London auditions reduce into a sea of crumpled up wet faces. We heard the heart wrenching tale from Jonathan about the tough time he’s had from bullies over his weight: “When people would say something to me, it would just take a little piece out of me in a sense,” and learnt about Charlotte’s staunch defense of him: “I’m quite protective of Jonathan if I was there and someone stood there and said something to him, I couldn’t sit there with my mouth shut. Before you make a judgement on someone I think you really need to know them, it’s cliché, it’s not judging a book by it’s cover, you’ve got to read what’s inside.”
So that set everyone up for a good weep when they performed their song together – and were awesome.
Simon said: “Wow, wow, wow. Oh my god” and David decided their act was a cross between opera and pop: “A pop voice and an opera voice together, it was incredible.” We are now calling this ‘Popera’ – he didn’t copyright it after all.
Of course Simon had to throw a spanner in the already leaking works by suggesting Charlotte wasn’t as good as Jonathan and he should drop her (sharp intake of breath), but Jonathan stood by his rock and said: “Well we’ve come on here as a duo and we’re gonna stay here as a duo.” Sigh of relief.
Is this the best audition moment ever? Here’s some others from past years to compare it to. It’s possible Jonathan and Charlotte are the new Paul Potts and Subo…
When God, sorry Simon created the earth, sorry BGT, in 2007, a certain mobile phone salesman from Wales sang Nessun Dorma. It brought a tear to Amanda Holden’s eye (although that’s nothing new) and she described Paul Potts as: “A little lump of coal that is going to turn into a diamond.” He pretty much did that by going on to win the show.
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