Month of December , 2007

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IN THE NEXT WEEK, Paul Potts will decide whether to go back to his job as manager at the Carphone Warehouse in England, a mobile-phone retailer. His company gave him six months to decide. But this is not your typical sabbatical. If you watched his performance on "Britain's Got Talent" which has had millions of downloads on YouTube, you may be wondering: Why is there any doubt in his mind to leave his day job and pursue a career as a classical singer? (continued)

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Paul Potts performing Caruso during a mini concert in Amsterdam. It was broadcasted 28th december on Dutch television
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December 27, 2007 

Paul Potts: The crooked-toothed cell phone salesman won the U.K. reality contest "Britain's Got Talent" in June by wowing judges -- including the acerbic Simon Cowell -- with his surprising abilities as an opera singer. He has already sung for the Queen and released an international album. Hopefully he enjoyed 2007, because overnight opera sensations don't usually capture public attention for too long.

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December 26, 2007

In the next week Paul Potts will decide whether to go back to his job as manager at the Carphone Warehouse in England, a mobile phone retailer. His company gave him six months to decide. But this is not your typical sabbatical. If you watched his performance on "Britain's Got Talent" which has had millions of downloads on YouTube, you may be wondering: Why is there any doubt in his mind to leave his day job and pursue a career as a classical singer?

It does seem as if the dreams of this 37-year-old man from South Wales who has been passionate about music since he was a child are unfolding. Although he appeared in amateur opera productions before, he had never performed for pay. Then he sang a version of Puccini's "Nessun dorma" on "Britain's Got Talent," and won. Audience members wept as he sang the aria. A judge wiped away tears and said, "(We've got) a little lump of coal here that is going to turn into a diamond." Which indeed does seem the case.

Paul Potts on The Hour

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Dec 24, 2007

In the next week Paul Potts will decide whether to go back to his job as manager at the Carphone Warehouse in England, a mobile phone retailer. His company gave him six months to decide. But this is not your typical sabbatical. If you watched his performance on "Britain's Got Talent" which has had millions of downloads on YouTube, you may be wondering: Why is there any doubt in his mind to leave his day job and pursue a career as a classical singer?

It does seem as if the dreams of this 37-year-old man from South Wales who has been passionate about music since he was a child are unfolding.

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In the next week Paul Potts will decide whether to go back to his job as manager at the Carphone Warehouse in England, a mobile phone retailer. His company gave him six months to decide. But this is not your typical sabbatical. If you watched his performance on Britain's Got Talent which has had millions of downloads on YouTube, you may be wondering: Why is there any doubt in his mind to leave his day job and pursue a career as a classical singer?

It does seem as if the dreams of this 37-year-old man from South Wales who has been passionate about music since he was a child are unfolding. Although he appeared in amateur opera productions before, he had never performed for pay.

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It was on the stage of the Millennium Cardiff Theatre in Wales where Paul Potts' life changed forever — just six months ago, when Potts, a shy 36-year-old mobile phone salesman, auditioned for the TV show "Britain's Got Talent."

Nervously, Potts took the stage in front of a packed house and three judges, among them "American Idol's" Simon Cowell.

"I'm always nervous before I perform," Potts said. "At that point, I was asking, 'What the hell are you doing here?' I felt myself shaking." [more]

U.K. singer Paul Potts was discovered on the popular show "Britain's Got Talent." He stops by the Second Cup Cafe to sing "O Holy Night," from his debut album, "One Chance."

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recorded in november, broadcasted december 16th
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PAUL Potts flashes me a grin. And why not, he’s got a lot to smile about.

Since winning the ITV1 show Britain’s Got Talent in June, he’s headlined the Royal Variety Performance, notched up 1.5 million sales of his debut album and played concerts on almost every continent.

Not bad for someone who was an unknown salesman working in Port Talbot’s Carphone Warehouse six months ago and who, until recently, for pictures always refused to smile.

But today, proudly showing off his new dentures after vowing to correct his crooked smile, Paul is the first to admit that money does make the man. [more]

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OPERA sensation Paul Potts is keeping his love for his wife alive in cyberspace after splashing out. . .on a laptop!

The Britain’s Got Talent winner has spent the last six months touring the world promoting his million-selling debut album One Chance.

Next year will see him embark on a global tour, taking in the US, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

But despite cashing in after winning the ITV1 show, the star has revealed one of his few extravagances has been a computer so he can keep his internet romance with wife Julie-Anne, 26, alive while on tour. [more]

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Former mobile phone salesman turned number one singer Paul Potts is to be the subject of an exclusive ITV1 documentary, Paul Potts: By Royal Command.

This one off documentary will give an exclusive insight into how Paul’s life has changed since he walked onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage in Cardiff and performed Nessun Dorma in front of judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden. The show will document his triumph over adversity from being on the brink of bankruptcy to achieving international success on the back of one audition.

Working as a salesman at the Carphone Warehouse, Paul had always dreamt of becoming an opera singer, but  [more]

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"Britain's Got Talent" winner Paul Potts [ tickets ] has been working like a madman since sweeping the competition in June, and he's just laid out plans for his first US trek.
In March, the opera singer is scheduled to play eight shows along the East Coast followed by nine dates across Canada. He'll wrap his North American tour on the West Coast, with gigs in Los Angeles and Mesa, AZ. Details are listed below.

Potts also has plans to tour the UK in January, New Zealand and Australia in April, and Europe in May and June. Information about overseas shows can be found at his website.

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March 1 - Hollywood, FL - Hard Rock Live @ Seminole Casino
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March 2 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Theatre
March 3 - Washington, DC - Lisner Auditorium
March 5 - Ledyard, CT - Fox Theater @ Foxwoods Casino
March 6 - Westbury, NY - North Fork Theatre
March 8 - Atlantic City, NJ - Music Box Theater @ Borgata Hotel & Casino
March 9 - Boston, MA - Berklee Performance Center
March 11 - New York, NY - Town Hall
March 13 - Hamilton, Ontario - Hamilton Place Theatre
March 14 - Montreal, Quebec - Place des Arts
March 15 - Toronto, Ontario - Roy Thompson Hall
March 17 - Ottawa, Ontario - Centrepoint Theater
March 19 - Edmonton, Alberta - Winspear Theater
March 20 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Centre for Performing Arts
March 24 - Calgary, Alberta - Jack Singer Concert Hall
March 26 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
March 27 - Mesa, AZ - Ikeda Theatre

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Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts is showing me his gleaming new teeth.

Gone are the wonky tombstones which enthralled television viewers almost as much as his singing voice when they voted for him last July.

Now his cosmetically enhanced smile, completed just the night before we meet, is toothpaste-commercial perfect. All he needs is the ring of confidence to go with it.  [more]

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When Paul Potts, winner of Britain’s Got Talent, performs at the Royal Variety Show on Sunday it won’t just be his voice that dazzles the audience.

Paul has a brand new reason to smile this week, having undergone the finishing touches to his ‘smile makeover’ under the care of renowned cosmetic dentist Dr Johann Styger at the Portmore Dental Practice, Weybridge, Surrey.

However, unlike many celebrities who choose treatment to achieve the perfect ‘Hollywood smile’, the reasons for Paul’s lengthy dental treatment we not just cosmetic. “There were very important health reasons behind Paul’s decision to seek dental treatment,” explains Dr Styger, who believes that without intervention, Paul would have eventually developed problems with his teeth that may have affected his ability to sing. [more]

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Although "The Associates," a comedy series about young lawyers at a Manhattan law firm, only lasted about nine episodes in 1979, one of its memorable scenes involved a palimony case.

A young woman claimed that her live-in relationship with a wealthy man had prevented her from pursuing her own career and that she deserved palimony to compensate for the damage to her career.

This testimony led one of the young attorneys to think that he had found the perfect opening for his wealthy client. He pressed the young woman to tell the court what career she had abandoned. [more]

"Opera" was her reply.

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The Royal Variety Performance proved a memorable night for Liverpool. Philip Key reports

WHAT a start! The Royal Variety Performance got off to one of its most spectacular openings last night and one with a strong Liverpool connection.

The British singer Seal began calmly enough with a rendition of The Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and as he sang the stage filled with more and more people. There were people swinging from trapezes, stilt walkers, someone doing backflips on a board, drummers and finally Liverpool’s own Sense of Sound choir adding its own distinctive sound.

It was amazing stuff and one that the rest of the show would have trouble matching.

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Paul Potts is scared he'll accidentally head butt the Queen when he meets her at the Royal Variety Performance tonight.

The 36-year-old is due to sing in front of Her Majesty on the show - which is recorded for broadcast later this week - but is dreading being introduced afterwards.

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Opera singing discovery Paul Potts was hailed as the star of the Royal Variety Show in front of the Queen last night.

The former mobile phone salesman from Port Talbot was on the star-studded bill at Liverpool Empire Theatre as part of his prize for winning the TV show Britain's Got Talent.

Silent Night



Time to Say Good Bye

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WITH £38,000 worth of debt, a burst appendix, a tumour in his abdomen and a broken collar bone, Paul Potts was in danger of becoming the unluckiest man in Britain.

Today, three years after climbing out of a hospital bed, Paul is just back from turning on the Christmas lights in Manhattan.

Fresh from a transatlantic flight and a promotional tour of Canada and America, he is pondering his fortunes, still amazed that he was invited to open the Christmas decorations display in the window of the legendary Bloomingdale's department store.

As recoveries go, this guy makes Lazarus look poorly.

Since winning Britain's Got Talent in the summer his schedule is less like that of a sickly mobile phone salesman and more that of an international rock star.