A Modest Success

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An unassuming Paul Potts, who often looks as if he's on the verge of tears, nearly missed his tryout last April for “Britain's Got Talent,'' a televised talent competition like “American Idol.”

The amateur opera singer was working as a salesman at a cell phone store, and he felt bad having a co-worker fill in for him on his weekend shift. The night before the audition, he flipped a coin.

“I couldn't decide whether to enter or not,'' says Potts during a telephone interview last week from a hotel room in the United Kingdom. “I didn't know whether I had the talent. I wasn't sure if I'd be considered too old. It was a big risk and I don't usually take risks. In the end, I left it up to the 10 pence.”

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