Any Dream Will Do runners up, Lewis Bradley and Ben Ellis have both won major roles on the West End.

Lewis will share the role of Joseph with show winner, Lee Mead for one show a week, while Ben has landed a role on the West End Version of Hairspray.

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How Ben Ellis managed to get to the semi final of BBC’s reality show Any Dream Will Do baffles me. But thank the lord, he got booted out last night.

Lewis Bradley, Keith Jack and Lee Mead will now take part in the show’s final next week, the winner of which will take the lead role on a West End version of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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Any Dream Will Do finalists, Lewis Bradley and Ben Ellis, have been friends since attending the Italia Conti drama school in London. But taking part in the BBC show has not helped their friendship. In fact if reports are to believed the rivalry between the pair is tearing their friendship apart.

A BBC1 insider told The People:
“In the beginning they stuck together like glue.

“Now they’re not even rehearsing within earshot of each other. It’s certainly very frosty between the pair.”

Lewis, 17, got upset after Denise Van Outen said his singing last week was “disappointing”.

Fellow judge John Barrowman then told him to “take note” from 18-year-old Ben.

Our source added: “Their friendship has definitely taken second place to their ambitions to win the role of Joseph.

“Lewis didn’t like being told to take a leaf out of Ben’s book. He wants to turn things around.”

Chris Crosby has become the first finalist to leave BBC’s Any Dream Will Do.

After a decent vocal performance of Maroon 5’s hit ‘This Love’, both Denise Van Outen and Andrew Lloyd Webber thought that Chris was too boyish and skinny to play Joseph and it seems as though their criticisms may have influenced the voters.

Chris ended up in the bottom two with Ben Ellis from Scarborough, and they were required to sing ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ together, before Lord Lloyd Webber used his casting vote to save Ben.

Ben Ellis, 18

A student originally from Scarborough and now living in Hackney, London.

Born in Scarborough, Ben moved to London at the age of 16 to pursue his dream of making it as an actor and singer.

He is now studying Musical Theatre at The Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts and says that he thinks he could be a “masculine and funny” Joseph who would bring energy to the part, but isn’t looking forward to wearing the sandals!

He auditioned in London and has found the experience “emotionally and mentally draining, but exciting at the same time.”