With a toss of a coin, a star is born

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Oct 18, 2007,  thestar.com

If you've ever seen Paul Potts, you won't be surprised to hear that his road to fame and fortune started with the toss of a coin.

The Welsh-born tenor, who turned 37 last Saturday, was the manager of a cellphone store just a few months ago. On a whim, he filled out the online application for the television talent show Britain's Got Talent.

"I thought it would be great to have a chance to sing at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff," he says during a Toronto media stop yesterday afternoon.

"Then I got to the bottom of the form and I thought, do I apply or not?" he remembers. "I wasn't sure if I thought I had enough talent, or if I was too old, or if I was what they were looking for.

"So, in the end, I took a 10-pence piece out of my pocket and decided to toss it. Heads and I would send the application in," he recalls.