Potts enjoys wild ride from penury to opera star

Potts enjoys wild ride from penury to opera star 

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Just five months ago, amateur opera singer Paul Potts was mired in debt and selling cell phones in Britain. Now he has a hit album and is due to tour the world.

Potts, a stocky 37-year-old Englishman with crooked teeth, entered and won the "Britain's Got Talent" television show in June in front of more than 13 million viewers and then signed a recording deal reportedly worth $2 million.

His debut album, "One Chance," has topped charts around the world including Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

"I have done more things in the last four months than I would ever have expected to do in my whole lifetime," Potts told Reuters in an interview. "It's mind-boggling."

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