Hollywood shot for Potts

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THE rags-to-riches story of Port Talbot singing star Paul Potts is to be made into a Hollywood film.

It will be produced by Simon Cowell, who steered Potts to fame after he won the first series of Britain's Got Talent.

The former Carphone Warehouse salesman is to get the big screen treatment after Paramount Pictures snapped up the rights to his story, according to industry magazine Variety. It is being hailed as the next Billy Elliot.

Cowell, a judge on Britain’s Got Talent, was approached by a Hollywood executive whose daughter had shown him YouTube clips of Potts’ performing Nessun Dorma.

Cowell told Variety: “Most of these calls result in absolutely nothing, but this company got that it’s another Billy Elliot, a story anyone in the world can understand.