January 24th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Ashley Banjo has reportedly been approached about putting together a huge dance routine, for the opening ceremony of this year’s London Olympics.
The Got To Dance judge of course shot to fame after his dance troupe ‘Diversity’ beat Susan Boyle and won Britain’s Got Talent back in 2009. He now judges on Sky One’s reality TV series Got To Dance, which airs on Sunday nights and will soon front his own show for the channel, titled ‘Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew.’
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January 4th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Got To Dance 2011 unearthed some of the most amazing and unique dancing talent in the country and now it’s back for a third series this January on Sky 1 HD.
Got To Dance looks to discover the country’s most talented dance floor divas by scouring the nation for Britain’s best crews, troupes and solo dancers of all styles and ages. Davina McCall hosts the competition that will push contestants to their limits as they strive to win the life-changing cash prize of £250k.
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December 1st, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Got to Dance 2011 unearthed some of the most amazing and unique dancing talent in the country and soon it will be back for a third series this January on Sky 1.
The reality TV series looks to discover the country’s most talented dance floor divas by scouring the nation for Britain’s best crews, troupes and solo dancers of all styles and ages. Davina McCall hosts the competition that will push contestants to their limits as they strive to win the life-changing cash prize of £250k.
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November 27th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
David Walliams and Dannii Minogue have reportedly signed up as judges for the next series of Britain’s Got Talent.
It has been claimed that former X Factor judge Dannii will join Amanda Holden on the judging panel of the ITV show, when panel auditions start in the New Year. The Australian star has been in London for a few weeks and has reportedly used the time to meet with show bosses and work on scheduling times and dates where she will be available for filming.
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June 17th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Ashley Banjo has admitted that he was glad when Jai McDowall won the recent ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ series.
The dancer and leader of Diversity dance troupe, who won the ITV show in 2009, said that the Scottish care worker was one of his top three favourite acts ever to appear on the show, alongside his own group and operatic sensation Paul Potts..
Ashley told BANG Showbiz: “Jai one hundred percent deserved to win. There’s just something about him. His performance at the semi-final was up there with my top three favourite performances ever on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
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June 9th, 2011 by Sarah.
Ashley Banjo, the 22-year-old dancer who shot to fame when his troupe Diversity won ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ in 2009, admitted working alongside the former Pussycat Dolls singer on Sky1 talent series ‘Got To Dance’ was a nerve-wracking experience.
He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “When we went up to Edinburgh for the first auditions it was pretty scary – I was like, ‘Wow, I’m actually behind the panel!’
“It was also a little intimidating at first because, you know – she’s Kimberly, she was a Pussycat Doll! But she’s brilliant and we get along great. Kimberly’s turned out to be a really good friend.”
Ashley explained the most difficult part of judging the dancing competition was rejecting talented hopefuls, but he has been able to draw on his own experiences with Diversity to help contestants deal with rejection. Read more & comment »
January 16th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Here Come The Girls will make their TV debut on tonight’s Got To Dance. Hailing from Maidstone, this ladies formation dance team are aged 23-65 and started up when they couldn’t find enough men to take part, although they won’t give up in their search for the perfect partner. “It’s very difficult to get a male partner, the ratio of men to women – there are far more women. But if there are any hot men watching they can come and join!”
Tia Maria from the group has her eye on one man in particular – “I want to impress and marry Ashley. That would be the icing on the cake to speak to Ash, as he likes to be known, oh sorry…”
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January 16th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Kayzar Reloaded are a street dance group of 8-30 year olds from a dance school in Essex.
The troupe auditioned for the Got To Dance judges and after their routine, which will be aired tonight, Kimberly and Ashley both seem to share the opinion that they didn’t show quite enough dancing – Kimberly says “you just didn’t’ give me that dance moment” and Ashley comments “as far as the dancing goes I think you needed to give me a little bit more. “
But after feeding back to the group, Ashley then changes his mind when he takes into consideration the concept of their dance, explaining “I changed my mind because crews generally miss originality and soul and feeling and you guys had that.”
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January 16th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Got To Dance judge Ashley Banjo has admitted that he thinks Britain’s Got Talent will struggle to bring in it’s normal record breaking rating figures, without the presence of music mogul Simon Cowell.
Simon has decided not to sit on the ITV show’s panel this year because of his new American X Factor series and will not be attending any of the UK wide auditions. Instead David Hasselhoff, Michael McIntyre and Amanda Holden will sort the wheat from the chaff and Cowell will only show his face for the live shows later this year.
Ashley Banjo, 22, won the talent extravaganza with his dance troupe Diversity in 2009 and in an interview with The Daily Star admitted that he doesn’t think the new judges (and Amanda) will gel as a panel. He said:
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January 9th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Eleven ladies, aged between 13 and 19 years old, headed up by 43 year old Alison showed up at the Got To Dance auditions to rock the Judges with a new twist on Street dance which they have called ‘Street Rock’.
As Alison explains it is “street moves to rock music. Never seen anything like before and I think we are different and it works brilliantly”
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