They’re calling it a big fix over on our forum, but dancer George Sampson has won Britain’s Got Talent 2008. The final line-up was:
- George Sampson
- Signature
- Andrew Johnston
George won after performing a pumped-up version of Singing In The Rain which finished with him getting drenched on stage. It was all very visually stunning, but you can’t help wondering what set George apart from all the other dance acts who participated.
Personally, I missed a lot of the semi-finals this week, so tonight was my first view of a lot of the acts, including George. For me, Andrew Johnston was impressive, but even he was upstaged by young Faryl Smith. Recently renamed string quartet Escala were also breathtakingly good and deserved to be in the final.
The accusation many people are levelling at the show is that it’s a complete fix. The producers ‘chosen few’ are given better coaching and more screen time dedicated to whatever sob story is cooked up to drum up public interest. Andrew Johnston looked uncomfortable at the video link showing him talking about being bullied and inexplicably walking down the street in pouring rain with no coat on. And the sad music being piled on the whole time.
Likewise George needed to win because it would save his life. Now, maybe I’m out of the loop, but what life-threatening disease requires £100,000 and a night onstage dancing for Prince Charles to cure it?
Ultimately, a lot of people tonight are feeling ripped off by Simon Cowell’s claim that Britain may have talent, but it can’t win competitions unless it has a big story to clinch the hearts of a disgustingly gullible public.
The lesson? Let the talent speak for itself. It’s not a fair contest otherwise.
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i love george sampson he was thuu best by farx x
I don’t believe that George got more votes than signature it seems all fixed.
The real winners should be signature who did a great performance and deserved to win that competition.
Nisha, signature did nothing that we all don’t do on a Saturday night after having too many drinks. He didn’t even moonwalk tonight, and other than that they was just prancing around to a music track at least George did something not many of us could even dream of doing. He won on merit!
I’m soooo pleased that this young lad won BGT2008. I had a very good feeling he would win before he even when through to the finals!
He was simply more talented then the other contestants and his dancing was absolutely fabulous! I could see this person had excellent potential to win!
His dancing was in a unique class of its own! Super-talented star potential!
Its also thanks to him that my long shot bet won, making me a profit of £125 for 5 minutes “work”.
George, congratulations! You’ve worked so hard for this, nobody deserved to win more than you!
I wish you great happiness and success in all that you do!
Charlie, do you honestly believe that, without natural talent and training, people are able to do what signature did tonight with the help of alcohol? If you could do anyting as half good, I bet you would have auditioned for this show.
I think signature should have won. They have more artistic creativity and more depth than George. I guess once again sympathy for cute face or for ‘I do it for my mum’
has played a role here.
What some people seem to be forgetting here is that George is extremely popular with the teenage girls whom of which are probably the people that watch it most. I don’t for a second think that the finals were a fix, George was the most popular act, loads of people loved him.
there are loads of people here in London who can breakdance 10 times better then George Sampson (let alone the whole of Britain) - its common act! but how many asians have you ever seen a talent show & can dance like michael jackson?
And actually Charlie he did moonwalk last night, the camera was facing to Madhu so you could only see Suleman’s feet.
Signature deserved to win without any sympathy for being “poor” to “save their lives” like most of the other contestants.
i do not believe this is fixed.
george won mainly bcoz of all the children voting for him.
his bebo fan page had about 40,000 members + he had 50 comments on there per second, literally.
It wouldn’t be the first time voting has been fixed in such a competition, remember Gareth Gates v Will Young…….
However respecting that everyones opinions are different, the biggest shock for me is that Escala didn’t get in the top 3 despite another world class performance. In fact not a single female in the top 3. Perhaps evidence of the fact that the majority of viewers and voters being female a group containing 4 very beautiful and talented musicians were going to struggle to attract the votes of the younger female element.
Again just my opinion.
Not sure about vote fixing but I agree that Escala were the most talented act by far.
Unfortunately for them female acts will always struggle when competing for public votes against young males. The only exception I can think of was Leona Lewis, but lets face it she had no competition to speak of.
George was brilliant. All this talk about fix is crazy, they say it every time someone wins one of these comps.
I tried for over 30 mins to vote for George.
What does amaze me is that Simon allowed a non singer to win. Think about it he will make a fortune from the singers as it stands but it would have been a bigger fortune if one of the singers had won. If any of the singers had won then you could shout fix. Simon will not make much from George thats for sure.
George did deserve to win and as for people saying that theres no way he got more votes… PATHETIC… people love him so much that some voted over 40 times… A friend of mine used 20 pound phone credit voteing and then went to get some more credit to carrie on voteing… He has captured our hearts and peronaly i would have voted still without the storie… i havent seen a 14 year old with that much dance tallent and now he will have the money and confidence to let his dance style mature and grow… We will soon be seeing him on our tv screens again and years after the RVP … This KID worked so hard… I think people are forgetting that he is just a kid… This Kid deserved this amazing prize.. i dare anyone to say that he did not deserve it at all… Did you see any one else as greatful to be in them semi finals… NO… Or in the final… I Hope people realise that tallent dosent always have to go to the experts afterall it is veriety
Good luck George! I hope you have a really good future ahead of you!
You really deserved to win!
As to everyone saying it was fixed, the majority of the viewers were teenage girls who voted for George. He didnt have as much of a sob story as Andrew Johnston for instance. And, all of the acts had to have a sob story- to pull in the viewers.
george was way better than signature so no it wasnt a fix every year on shows like this people always say its a fix coz who they wanted to win didnt win. weldone george you deserved it. xxxx
George actually ruled yesterday he was soooooo good he reminds me of J.T. but the thing is signature came as the top three cos the Asian community were backing them up n I’m Asian but i didn’t vote 4 them cos it’s a talent contest n George has better talent.
yeh but signiture still had talent lol but i get wat u mean cos george was well betta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol
lindsey x
I think that there were a lot of strange things going on with this programme. The way that some acts were blatantly given loads of help (Escala, George Sampson) with their sets and performances, whereas others seemed to have none. The scottish plumber who after singing Imagine was told that it was a terrible rendition by the judges to which he replied ‘I didn’t want to sing that song’ and that it was ‘out of his hands’ - which to me implied he was made to sing a song he didn’t want to do. Then you have the fact that everyone who won in the semi finals was on last which doesn’t particularly bother me but this seems to be more than coincidence. On Wikipedia it says that Per Diem were told to swap songs and to swap roles (i.e. guitar and singer)minutes before going on. I was surprised that the last couple of songs Faryll sung were such obscure songs when if she had sung really well known opera songs (as Paul Potts did) she would have done much better and I wonder based on my comments above, was she made to sing these songs. Then there’s all the stuff about Escala already being an established group and Simon Cowell asking them to appear on the show. Over the last few days of this programme I became more and more uncomfortable with what I was seeing. Why cant they (whoever is in charge) just let these things take their own natural course rather than trying to fix it all - they must think the viewers are thick not to notice all these things and question them. In addition their track records aren’t great anyway with all the Ofcom announcements to do with telephone vote fixing etc.
We love George we think he’s well peng and fit. He’s the best dancer in the whole entire world. We think he’s really nice to teach others how to dance!!!!
Your Well Cute And i hoped that you would win and you did I love you soo much and i think that your smile is well cute love you babe xxxx your well hot and whats your msn ? love you babe xxxxx your cute xxx
george ya were wkd on saturday night hope you get betta and keep on dancing love u x x x
you are wkd n u deserved 2 win luv u loods n keep on dancin
It makes me mad when I hear people saying that these shows are fixed. Just because the person they voted for didn’t win they make up absurd accussations that it’s a fix! Personally I am really glad that George won. He Deserved it more than anyone. I backed him from his first audition but if he hadn’t have won I wouldn’t have been accussing the show. He’s was more grateful to be in the semifinal. That boy has fought hard to get where he is and he never gave up - even with his spine condition! He won’t let anything get in the way of him doing what he loves and I really respect him for his dedication. He wasn’t just thinking of himself but his mother too and now they can both have the life they deserve. It has also made me mad that people are saying he didn’t need to win to save his life - he did. He used to dance every weekend in Manchester just to raise money so him and his mum could win. He even said in his first audition last year that life at home was bad - he obviously isnt lieing. I speak for most people when i say thisL George has definately proved that Briatain has Got Talent! We should all be supported him not critising him. I say could luck to him for the rest of his life.You have mine and all of my mates support - we love you ! x x
I also forgot to mention in my last comment about the fact that people are saying George got more help with his set. This is so not true! How can people say this? Cheeky Monkeys got balloons and streamers, Escala got flames, some of the singers got smoke. I’m sure everyone got the chance to ask for special effects but they just didn’t need them. I think it was an amazing idea of George’s to have the rain!
I was watching a DVD last night of “War of the Worlds” live at Wembley (2006). I am sure I saw two of the girls from Escala in the ULLAdubULLA stringed Orchestra. Can anyone shine any light on this?
wE ARE SO GLAD THAT GEORGE WON!!!
He is an inspiration to all young people who wish to follow thier dreams!!!!
Not only this but he is also loveable,
and now has every sain girl in the country, under his trance!!!
Personalyl we love him and wish him all the best and if he ever want to email us than he can @
lewisp@cheltladiescollege.org!!!!
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WE love george
the finals were such a big fix i cant belivee ittt the judges new that signiture wud not win and only kept them thru the finals because they new that the muslim population and the sikh population togther would bring in a lot of money to the show as they new they would get so many votes! i thought britans proud to represent the different cultures we have…and rumour i hear is that the winner only won because of his background compared to the asians….very disapointing..
omg he is so faf i luv him i wish i went has scholl i luv u george wooooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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hiys i just wonderin where do u performin after the royle verity showxx
there was no fix at all george was the best get over it morons
To goerge samspson you ok did you like it TOMbeardsmore xxx
george deserved to win by far and he is georgous aswell and a great dancer
xxxx luv u george xxxx
i dont think any of this was fixed. im only 12 but i do no that probably every single year 7,8,9,10 or more voted for him. im glad he won because he’s great, but pretty much everyone in the competition were excellent. But you can see in georges dancing that he has really tried for this- and finally did it, and won.
omgg any 1 hu says signature is crapp ure so sad bcoz dey r d bst any 1 can brake dance or dance in da rain bt u dnt get a man walking round lyk micheal jackson initt hu agreees i do so dnt dizz ma peeeepz big upp!!!!!
yhhh yhhh charlie or watevaa ure face is ahemmm stopp chattin bulll coz u no signitures da bstt true talnt dnt dis lyk simsam sez ma m8ty
george u wa ace i lv ya dancin my lil bro is tryin owt 4 breakdancing and street dancing u deserved to win i heard bowt u breakin yr bak hope u cn dance agen i lv ya speak 2 ya soon xx x x wel done bbe xx
hiyr george lv it mcihelle u ok wot u up 2 my lil bro is tryin owt 4 break dancing and strret dancing heard u broke ya bak hope u get beta soon lv ya loads x
herloo x =]
i love george sampson he is soo fitt x
i went to the Liverpool Echo Arena just because he was there.
He winked and smiled at me and my mate. We were over the moon.
Its almost my biirthday and i would love for george sampson to be there.. but im not a stalker, and i hope my wish will come true x
can you add me on msn please i really love you xx here my addy alexiz@hotmail.co.uk
iya hun wubu2>? i luv u loadz n loadz 4 eva cuzx ur fit as….
can u also add me in bebo mizzmojo-x@live.co.uk i l luv u !!!!
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