Britain’s Got Talent’s coming to Spencer Road

Auditions are set to take place in the Dance House - a facility run by the cross-community Fountain Dance Association at 35-43 Spencer Road - on Thursday, October 30, as the show’s producers promise to leave no stone unturned in their quest to find the best talent around.

Executive Producer, Amelia Brown, said: “Britain’s Got Talent has an amazing record of celebrating amazing talent and changing people’s lives – from Susan Boyle and Diversity through to Paul Potts, Ashleigh and Pudsey and this year’s winners Collabro.

“They all took a chance and applied for the show and that’s what we want the people to do this year. We can’t wait to see the talent that The Dance House has to offer.

“These local auditions will run in tandem with the open audition tour which is visiting larger cities across the UK.”

The hit show’s producers say they are - as usual - looking for performers from right across the talent spectrum saying it’s open to any performer of any age, from any background, with any talent - all they need is a skill and star quality which they think will impress.

Anything goes from comedians to contortionists, dancers to drag acts and acrobats to animals.

“This year’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ winners, musical theatre boy band Collabro, who were crowned in front of an audience of 13million viewers at home, have gone on to amazing success having secured a No.1 hit with their debut album Stars,” said Ms Brown.

“The band will also be touring next year alongside fellow 2014 finalist Lucy Kay, who is set to release her debut album Fantasia this month.”

Other success stories from this series include musical duo Bars and Melody whose single, Hopeful reached number 5 in the chart in July, and swing band Jack Pack, who have recently signed a deal to release their debut album in 2015.

To date Susan Boyle has sold over 23 million records worldwide, Diversity have had five sell-out nationwide tours, Paul Potts, who has sold 27 platinum records worldwide and Ashleigh and Pudsey stared in their own movie earlier this year.

Britain’s Got Talent is Thames/Syco production for ITV. The show returns to ITV in 2015.