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( 2 stories between 21st April 2009 and 11th November 2010 )Biopic In Works For Britain's Got Talent Star
Nov, 11 2010
Before Susan Boyle, Britain's Got Talent produced another 'ugly duckling' winner, cellphone salesman Paul Potts. Simon Cowell described Potts as “a guy with a funny little suit and bad teeth who looked very nervous,” before he opened his mouth and sang Puccini's "Nessun Dorma," made famous by Luciano Pavarotti. "I'll never forget how much the room changed when he began singing," Cowell said.
Now David Frankel, who directed The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me, is due to take the helm of a biopic about Potts. "The film is a comedy that follows Potts from his origins as a chubby child to awkward portly adult with a passion for opera," reports Deadline, "and the various mishaps along the way that kept his spectacular voice a secret until he unveiled it one night before most of the United Kingdom."
Potts' debut album One Chance sold almost 4 million copies worldwide, but less than 5% of those sales were in the United States. In contrast, SuBo's I Dreamed A Dream has sold almost 9 million copies, around half in the U.S.
Paul Potts
Apr, 21 2009
There’s little doubt that when you buy into an artist, you’re buying into the whole package: the looks, the attitude, the lifestyle… oh, and the music too. The ascendancy of the reality television talent contest tended to re-enforce the myth, not dispel it, and so we were introduced to the fragrant delights of Leona Lewis and Kelly Clarkson and many others. When Paul Potts took to the stage for TV talent show, Britain’s Got Talent, the chubby tenor bucked the trend aesthetically, but went on to win the first series. Since then he has moved from selling mobile phones to selling millions of albums. Not only that; his success may have paved the way for the sensation of Susan Boyle, current frontrunner in the third series of the same show. The unassuming 47 year old singer from a tiny town in Scotland wowed the judges, audience and public alike as she took to the stage singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables. The international media have made much of the contrast between her homely appearance and her beautiful voice. Is it hype? Is it about championing the underdog? Or is the singing so good, we can put the cult of the beautiful to one side for a short while? Paul Potts, with a new album, Passione, due out soon, is probably happy for it to be any of the above. And so, it would seem, is Susan Boyle.
